How was your experience with Jared Robins at Northwestern Medicine?
I felt Dr. Robins was very candid and honest with me, which I appreciated. He felt our prognosis was good, which made me feel hopeful. Though I did not see him as often as I saw other providers in his clinic, he always responded to calls promptly when I wanted to speak with him and made me feel cared for.
What's one piece of advice would you give a prospective patient of Jared Robins at Northwestern Medicine?
The way the clinic is run, you will not see Dr. Robins too often, but he is overseeing your care. He is blunt but honest and will work to get you the results you desire. He has a huge knowledge base and always makes you feel as if you are in good hands.
During treatment, were you treated like a number or a human with Jared Robins at Northwestern Medicine?
Felt like he cared. Was very personable. Returned calls in a timely manner.
Describe the protocols Jared Robins used in your cycles at Northwestern Medicine and their degree of success.
First did workup, established that I had PCOS and my husband had a low sperm count. Once we had these results, immediately started me on femara for ovulation regulation, and started IUIs to increase the chances of husband's sperm getting to egg. Unfortunately we had no pregnancies after 3 IUIs. Once we had tried IUI 3 times we advanced to IVF (which Dr. Robins said we would likely need from the get-go, though he was pleased w/ my response to femara and my husbands counts so he felt several trials of IUI were appropriate). For IVF I was started on Menopur and Cetrotide, which I responded well to. Used ovidrel once the eggs were ready. Also as Dr. Robins predicted, I responded very well to low doses of these medications. We became pregnant with a single embryo fresh transfer at 5 days. We still have 3 frozen embryos in the clinic.
Describe your experience with the nursing staff.
The nurses were fabulous. They were compassionate and kind and prompt with responding. They never let questions go unanswered.
It was a bit harder to get a hold of the IVF nurse, though I think she was extremely busy, and she always got in touch within a reasonable amount of time.
Describe your experience with Northwestern Medicine.
Strengths - well located, clean and gorgeous. Excellent nursing and doctor staff.
Weaknesses - dealt with some billing errors which were slow to be corrected, sometimes waiting room staff could be a little ornery (which I can hardly blame them for, dealing with 10s to 100s of anxious ladies a day).
Describe your experience with your monitoring appointments at Northwestern Medicine.
It was a bit of a cattle call experience, though there are so many u/s techs that generally the wait was pretty short.
Describe the costs associated with your care under Jared Robins at Northwestern Medicine.
Costs were minimal, was largely covered by insurance, with copays. Overall I think we spent under $2000 (several things werent covered, ie embryo freezing)
What specific things went wrong at Northwestern Medicine?
- Failed to call with results
- Failed to order appropriate test