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Chapter 27 - Ethical Platform of Assisted Reproduction

from Part VI - Practice Issues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2022

By
Jeanne O’Brien  and
Julianne Zweifel
Edited by
Sharon N. Covington
Sharon N. Covington
Affiliation:
Shady Grove Fertility, Rockville, MD
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I am a board-certified reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist with a focused interest in reproductive genetics. The most challenging aspect of being an infertility specialist lies in the complexity of clinical decision-making and the ability to compassionately convey the disappointments that our innate biology brings us.

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Fertility Counseling: Case Studies , pp. 149 - 155
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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