Chapter 83: Family Physician's Experience

This chapter presents a family physician's experience with NaProTECHNOLOGY and describes how it can be practiced within a normal family practice office, supported by a team that includes a FertilityCare Practitioner, a pharmacist and an obstetrician/gynecologist. The chapter gives primary care protocols for infertility, threatened and recurrent miscarriage, premenstrual syndrome, abnormal vaginal bleeding and continuous mucus discharges, with infertility evaluation beginning with the couple learning the CREIGHTON MODEL FertilityCare System. Over five years, one family physician tracked 106 referred patients with 187 reproductive or gynecologic problems, and the reported success ranged from 78.0 to 88.6 percent for abnormal vaginal bleeding and from 51.4 to 60.0 percent for infertility. The chapter also sets out the author's critical view of hormonal and surgical family planning and presents natural family planning as one of the best resources available to a family physician.