Patients often get confused when they go to different IVF doctors , because the advice they get can be very different. Thus, there are some IVF doctors who will routinely do a hysteroscopy to evaluate the uterine cavity before doing an IVF cycle, whereas others will not because they're happy to rely on a normal vaginal ultrasound scan to confirm that the endometrium is normal. Patients are not sure what to do, and they can't understand why doctors disagree with each other !
The reason is because doctors have different treatment philosophies. Some doctors are very aggressive, and they want to do all the possible tests in order to make sure that everything is perfect before starting the IVF cycle, no matter how slim the chances of actually finding anything significant. They don't mind subjecting their patients to a lot of unnecessary tests , with the justification that they will pick up…
