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So wrote Bernfeld about scientific objectivity.1 The physician caring for the infertile couple should, whenever possible, utilize the latest that science has brought to the care of the infertile couple. In such areas as therapy for anovulation and endometriosis, and in the use of microsurgery, intrauterine insemination, and in vitro fertilization, there has been an accumulation of scientific data to provide appropriate guidelines.
To start off with the observation of facts, to draw from them predictions which are verifiable by other facts; that is the modest endeavor of scientists today.
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Bernfeld S: The facts of observation in psychoanalysis. Soc Psychiatry 12:289, 1941
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Taymor, M.L. (1990). The Science and Art of Infertility. In: Infertility. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0627-6_3
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