Boston: doctor recommendation for vasectomy ?
Steve Davies
I would be very careful with what your about to do with your life. I had a
vasectomy three years ago and regretted it ever since. I know a few people
that have had major problems, some that had their operation over fifteen
years ago...............please take care.
Steve
"Philippe" <meu...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote in message
news:a9isg7$3k1n7$1...@ID-32838.news.dfncis.de...
> Cross-posted to a.s.c, Followup-To a.s.v.
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for recommendations for doctors in the Boston area that
> perform vasectomies. I'm leaning towards an open-ended procedure, so
> I'm particularly interested in doctors who can perform those.
>
> It would be nice if the doctor's office was T/bus accessible. I plan
> on taking a taxi to go back home after the operation, but I don't have
> a car so if the doctor's office is way out in the suburbs it's going
> to be a pain for me to go there for pre-op/post-op consultations, and
> I'd rather avoid that if I can.
>
> I'd be very happy if people could also give me an idea of what they
> paid, since my lovely student health insurance plan does not cover
> elective sterilization. I don't mind paying the price for a good
> experienced doctor, but I'm not exactly overly wealthy either...
>
> Oh, and if you know of doctors to avoid at all costs, I'd definitely
> like to hear from you :-)
>
> Feel free to email me directly if you don't want to post on the
> newsgroup... And I don't mind hearing about doctors who don't fit all
> my criteria (well, as long as they're in the Boston area...): the
> more information I have the better.
>
>
>
> Now my little story: I first went to the on-campus student health
> center to ask for information, but the doctor I saw there looked like
> I was the first person ever to ask him about vasectomies. He was nice
> enough, but in the end the only thing he could do was to give me the
> phone numbers of the couple of urologists that the center uses when
> students have urological problems. He didn't seem to know whether
> these urologists perform vasectomies or not (I haven't called these
> people yet).
>
> So I went to Planned Parenthood to try to get some more information.
> I was obviously the first person to ever ask the secretary behind the
> counter about vasectomies, because she had to ask a colleague whether
> they were performing vasectomies or not (they don't, but I already
> knew that from their web site), and the colleague spent then a good 5
> minutes trying to unheart a 12 page long general information booklet
> about vasectomies. They weren't able to give me any information about
> actual urologists. Interestingly enough, the booklet lists "your
> local Planned Parenthood health center" as one of the places to
> contact when you want to get a vasectomy :-) (the other places being
> "your family doctor" - which I don't have - "your local hospital" -
> haven't been there yet - and "your local public health department" -
> I'm not sure it's even worth trying that one :-))
>
> So I've spent a couple evenings on the web trying to find actual
> information about actual
> urologists. http://www.engenderhealth.org/wh/fp/cnsvdr.html doesn't
> seem to list any NSV provider that's close enough to me.
> http://www.auanet.org/patient_info/find_urologist/index.cfm lists a
> whole bunch of urologists but with no indication whatsoever of what
> they do.
>
> To my everlasting delight I finally found
> http://www.noscalpelvasectomy.com/list.asp Yay the internet :-) I
> should also check the yellow pages as soon has I've figured out where
> my roommates have put the phone directory. But now that I have the
> start of a list I'd like to have more doctor names as well as opinions
> from satisfied customers before I start randomly calling
> urologists. Hence this message...
>
> Well, that's all folks. Any help greatly appreciated :-)
>
> Philippe
>