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INFERTILITY SPECIALISTS (SPECIALIST MEDICAL PROFESSIONS)
California Occupational Guide Number 2002-D (part)
Interest Area:  Emerging Occupations
1995

THE JOB  

Infertility Specialists are solving problems associated with reproduction.  
Some Infertility Specialists do research work in laboratories and study the 
causes of and treatment for infertility.

Infertility Physicians and Surgeons work directly with the patients.  They 
consult with patients and devise a personal program for treatment.  They 
explain hormonal therapy to the patients, write prescriptions, and monitor 
the patients' progress.  The physicians perform such laboratory surgeries 
as endometrial biopsies, laparoscopies, and histosalpingograms.

If hormonal therapy and artificial insemination do not work, the Physicians 
and Surgeons sometimes perform more advanced and in-depth processes of 
in-vitro fertilization and embryonic transfers.

Nurse Practitioners often administer artificial insemination while the 
patient is on hormonal therapy and sometimes perform endometrial biopsies.

Ultrasound Technologists perform ultrasound tests on the patient after 
treatment has started which show whether or not the hormone drugs are 
working.

COMPENSATION

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