Re: 1st Appointment @ 8 Weeks

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At Tue, 11 Mar 2003, SKB wrote: >
>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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