Philip Chenette, MD

Dr. Chenette and his team are first class. This is THE clinic and THE doctor you want to work with. Dr. Chenette is smart, empathetic, encouraging, knowledgable, caring, and has hands down the best bedside manner out of any doctor I have interacted with in my lifetime. They did a successful round of egg freezing for me and were there with me every step of the way. 5 STARS all the way.

Dr. Chenette has been our RE for the past 3 ½ years. We have
been very pleased with PFC but mostly with Dr. Chenette. He has
great bedside manner. He’s patient and willing to answer all our questions.
I loved how I could email him and get a response within 24 hours.
I always felt confident we were working with a highly knowledgable doctor
who is very compassionate. I highly recommend him to anyone dealing with
infertility!

We achieved our first pregnancy (and child) with Dr. Chenette’s help, so I should be giving him 5 stars no matter what. But I have some misgivings. Mostly, I don’t feel that he listened to me or trusted that I understood my body.
1. When I first talked to another doctor at the PFC, she said she didn’t want her patients to chart their cycles; she didn’t want to work with me that way. I was then assigned Dr. Chenette, who, I was told, was amenable to his patients charting. And so he became my doctor. But it wasn’t true; he refused to discuss my charting results or listen to any knowledge I had to offer about my body.
2. Even though my tests were normal, he still insisted it must be an ovulation problem (I believe that is all they really know how to treat). He therefore pushed me to take Clomid the month of the IUI and to give myself the hCG shot the day before the IUI to ensure ovulation (even though my body functioned like clockwork). I obeyed, and the IUI worked, so I never thought back on it, until we were ready for our second child. With my second pregnancy, I felt less desperate and was more assertive with how I wanted to run the show. I insisted on a natural-​cycle IUI (no Clomid, no hCG), and, as I knew it would, it worked.
3. When I came in for an ultrasound for my 2^nd pregnancy, it was a Friday. Dr. Chenette said the follicles didn’t look big enough and that he was sure I wouldn’t ovulate over the weekend, so I wouldn’t need the IUI until Monday. I insisted I was going to ovulate on the weekend; I knew my own signs. I was trying to understand their hours and how it worked if you found out you were ovulating on a Sunday – who was in the office and at what time? Dr. Chenette skimmed over my question and told me that if it made me feel better, I could take an Ovulation Predictor Kit test on Saturday morning and if it was negative, I could wait until Monday to come into the office. But I knew better, so I took one test on Saturday morning (negative) and then one again at night (ovulating!). I started calling the office at 6am on Sunday and they told me to waste no time coming in. The IUI I had that morning (administered by Dr. Givens, whom I found infinitely more confident, warm, and nurturing) was successful, and that afternoon I felt my final ovulation cramp – I was done ovulating. Monday would have been too late.
So, my ultimate opinion of Dr. Chenette is: use him as a tool, but trust yourself first. I guess I the same is true about most doctors, but once in a while you find a doctor in whose hands you feel completely at ease, and let yourself check out while s/​he does all the thinking. IMO, Dr. Chenette is not that doctor. (But the baby we got from the IUI he administered is such an AWESOME kid, I almost gave Chenette 5 stars.)

Phil Chenette is absolutely fantastic. I have referred 3 friends with fertility problems to Phil and respectively 1 has a 3 year old, another a 2 year old and another due with a baby next week! I feel honored and so happy that I could help in some way to make my girlfriends’ dreams come true with 3 pregnancies due to Phil Chenette. If you have a fertility problem, why wouldn’t you go to one of the best fertility specialists in the country? That man is Phil Chenette. HE ROCKS!!!