IVF treatment can be stressful, but the real tragedy is that IVF clinics often make it unnecessarily complex for their patients. They just add to their poor patient's stress levels by doing lots of superfluous stuff. This starts even before the IVF cycle begins. For example, may clinics routinely subject all their patients to a battery of tests. Now these tests seem very sophisticated, but not only are they very expensive, they actually don't change the patient's treatment options. These provide a lot of impressive numbers, but these are of no clinical use whatsoever. Unfortunately, patients are naïve.They believe that additional testing increases precision, but this is a false perception.