Dr. Charles Monteith to Become Certified as a Tubal Reversal Surgeon
February 20, 2008
(Chapel Hill, NC) - Dr. Gary S. Berger, Medical Director of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, today announced the association of Dr. Charles W. Monteith as a certified tubal reversal surgeon beginning in July of 2008.
Dr. Monteith attended college at Xavier University of Louisiana, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He attended medical school at the University of California at San Francisco where he received a Howard Hughes research fellowship and conducted research in molecular genetics.
After completing his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dr. Monteith accepted a Clinical Assistant Professor position with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina in 2001. He worked as a Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wake Medical Hospital in Raleigh, N.C. for seven years where he practiced high-risk obstetrics and advanced surgical gynecology. Dr. Monteith spent a significant amount of time with the training and teaching of both medical students and residents.
Under the guidance of Dr. Berger, Dr. Monteith is currently undergoing certification in tubal ligation reversal surgery and will have assisted on more than a hundred reversal procedures before he begins accepting patients in July.
Dr. Berger has been performing tubal reversal surgery for more than 30 years and has performed more than 6000 reversal procedures during his career. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only facility in the United States that is limited specifically to the practice of tubal reversal surgery.
Source http://press.tubal-reversal.net/press-release-tubal-reversal-surgeon-monteith.htm
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Jessica Lopez | April 23, 2008 at 10:04 am
My sister is looking into tubal reversal, she said there is a clinic in Raleigh tht charges about $2,000.00for the whole procedure. Do you know which clinic she is talking about? Please E-mail me any information you can on prices please. Thank you, Jessica Lopez
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rashema | June 3, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I was wondering how close are you located to charolette n.c. the pricing for a tubal ligation seems far more resonable then the prices that i’ve seen in southern nj.
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Julia Smith RN | June 5, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only medical facility in the country specifically for tubal ligation reversal surgery. Reversal surgery is the only procedure we perform with Drs. Berger and Monteith performing four reversals each day, five days a week. We have a high staff/patient ratio with one or two nurses devoted specifically to your care while you are here. All of our nurses have advanced certification in cardiac life support (ACLS) and our anesthesiologists are MD’s with board certification in anesthesia. Everyone here has expertise in caring for and performing reversal surgery. While you are here, you will only be with other women and couples who are here specifically for the same purpose.
We provide the most detailed information about tubal reversal available from any doctor, hospital, or medical institution. Keeping track of patients following surgery makes excellent sense from a clinical point of view. Continuing follow-up after surgery helps ensure the best care for each patient and allows us to evaluate the success of tubal reversal surgery and the care we provide. Setting up and maintaining a system to ensure ongoing follow-up is not usually found in a private medical practice since this is costly and time-consuming and requires staff knowledgeable in database management. Regardless of the cost and time requirement, Dr. Berger has made it a priority because of his commitment to giving patients all of the information they should have in order to make an informed decision about tubal reversal surgery.
At Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, we have a computer system where every nurse enters patient information before, during, and after their surgery. In fact, all 11 of our nurses contact patients, record data and make daily entries into computerized records.
With this follow-up information, we can analyze and report accurate statistical data about the long-term outcomes of tubal reversal procedures Dr. Berger has performed.
Our patient follow-up system consists of information collected in many different ways and includes a minimum of 6 calls or e-mails to the patient in the first year following surgery.
1. Post-operative nurse visit the morning after surgery;
2. Telephone follow-up on the second postoperative day;
3. Telephone follow-up on the third postoperative day;
4. E-mail questionnaire at two weeks;
5. Telephone contact at 6 months;
6. Telephone contact at 12 months.
Other information is collected and recorded any time we communicate with patients post-operatively. These contacts are usually initiated by patients to report pregnancies and the outcomes of pregnancies. When patients report new pregnancies, we request that they complete a Pregnancy Report Form. Each week, we summarize the new pregnancy results in the Weekly Pregnancy Report Forum of the Tubal Reversal Message Board and also give more details in the Weekly Pregnancy Announcements.
After reading our information and statistics and comparing it to what might be available from other doctors, we believe patients will recognize that Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only facility where accuracy of information is considered to be a priority and sharing it with prospective patients is considered to be a necessity. Providing facts rather than offering misleading or speculative statements about tubal reversal success is one mission of our practice. We believe this is the right thing to do.
Julia Smith RN