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Re: 1st Appointment @ 8 Weeks

From: SKB (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:34:51 -0600 (CST)

At Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Anonymous wrote: >
>Trish, as a taxpayer, I hope that you don't live in a country where the
>burden of the cost of this behaviour is being paid for by other
>citizens. Even if you didn't see a sac, there would be little you could
>do about it. If you are paying for ultrasounds at this point, then I
>guess you can do what you want. Otherwise, think of what the cost of
>insurance or taxes would be if every pregnant womand requested not only
>a prenatal appointment but also an ultrasound at six weeks....
>

Because mine so far has been a VERY routine and uneventful pregnancy, I will have just 1 U/S at 20 weeks and then I think possibly another just before I'm due. My uncle is the head of radiology at a hospital in So. Cal. and when I told him I was sad that I would only have 2 U/Ss he said they try and ONLY do 2 because as he says, "when they started doing X-Rays they thought they were completely safe too" and since it APPEARS U/S are safe but they have not been in use long enough to really determine, he said, the fewer the better...I don't know why more docs don't take this stance?



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