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IVF organisation
An ovulation tracker app and an IVF treatment organiser do different jobs. One estimates information about a menstrual cycle. The other records information from a clinic-directed treatment plan. During IVF, I needed the second type of tool. I was no longer trying to predict when I might ovulate. I was trying to keep track of...
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IVF medication schedule and treatment instructions laid out on a desk with tablets, handwritten notes, and fertility medications during a treatment cycle.
I have given injections in emergency departments. I have inserted intravenous lines into necks and chests for chemotherapy. I have drained fluid from abdomens and lungs, done core biopsies of liver tissue and breast lumps, inserted urinary catheters, performed autopsies. I spent years in pathology dissecting specimens. Then came the day I had to give...
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I never planned to build an app. I am a doctor. I know how to read a protocol, follow instructions, manage complexity. I have done it professionally for years. And yet, sitting on my kitchen floor surrounded by printed sheets from three different clinics, medication boxes with handwritten notes, and a calendar that no longer...
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