Mommy Docs

The first and arguably the most important choice in the journey to becoming a mother is picking your health care provider. In an ideal situation, your provider can be the same person who delivers your baby. This isn’t always possible, but it allows for a comfortable consistency throughout the pregnancy. In our experience with the [...]

April is National Infertility Awareness Month. Here are the top ten things to know about fertility. Timing – Many women do not know when they are ovulating or how to predict when they are ovulating.  They also do not understand that the cycle starts on the first day of menstrual bleeding. The first thing to [...]

Approximately one year ago I had to deliver devastating news to a lovely couple, Yani and Henry.  I could not find their baby’s heartbeat when they came in for their routine OB visit at 39 weeks.  I then did an ultrasound and confirmed that the baby was not alive.  The baby was delivered by cesarean [...]

We have a new show in development – “Mommy Docs” – for Public Television, but in the meantime, please check out your favorite episodes of “Deliver Me” on Discovery Fit & Health, airing weekdays at 10 a.m Eastern and 7 a.m. Pacific. For a full list of showtimes and episode information, click here. This week: [...]

Today, we announced a new partnership with Insight Pharmaceuticals (e.p.t. and Monistat) that will focus on highlighting various women’s health issues. This week, we shot some informational videos that will be available very soon — stay tuned! In the meantime, here are a few photos from the shoot.

My male friend Emilio was circumcised as an adult.  He grew up in South America where circumcision was not widely practiced.  As a child, he suffered from numerous infections of the foreskin.  As an adult, the scar tissue from the infections grew too much to bear, and he decided to undergo the procedure at age [...]

1.  I understand my own mother so much more now.  I get how hard it is to be a parent, and how much she sacrificed for me, loved me and is still here for me. 2.  I think I am a better OB-GYN since I have become a mom.  I understand how precious children are.  [...]

I have been a physician for 17 years and the thing I like least about what I do is giving a patient bad news. Most of the time when patients come in for a blood test or have a biopsy, the best way to give follow up results is tricky. Most patients do not have [...]

Becoming an OB/GYN certainly wasn’t the easiest road.  The training was rough to say the least – working 80 to 100 hours per week for four years in one of the most challenging fields of medicine.  After residency, things improve somewhat, but the hours are still long with middle-of-the-night phone calls and trips to the [...]

I saw a patient of mine yesterday named Shannon.  I have been her doctor ever since I started my practice more than 12 years ago and I look forward to our annual catch-up sessions.  When we met she was a nervous high-school senior, and I have watched her grow into a confident businesswoman.  She met [...]