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Michael Guarnaccia

Sep 16, 2026

5:20
... dive into that a little more?
5:22
Right.
5:22
So I would say what we've seen over the past 10 years, five years, especially here at New England Fertility, which even predates me coming to work here, is that this is a system that is designed to facilitate the journey for LGBTQ patients, couples, so on and so forth.
5:40
Simply because, as I'll say to patients, um, it's the, it's the difference between if you're working with a general IVF unit which isn't sort of catered to the unique needs of the LGBTQ community, you'll sort of be put in with the general pool of patients going through fertility treatment, which is fine.
6:02
They'll probably get good care.
6:04
But I think the uniqueness of the journey, especially for the LGBTQ community, which requires a different avenue of treatment, it's imperative I think that not only the physicians, but the nursing staff, the a- ancillary staff, be facile at weaving through the hurdles potentially that patients in the LGBTQ community are going through in- And in that way, we can deliver care, more catered care, um, in a more organic way to those couples.
6:36
And it requires a practice that is s- that has become facile at weaving through the avenues.

5 MINS LATER

12:02
Mm-hmm

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