hey caution so I saw Karen first, that was fine, but really they know very little about the medical side. So dave your questions for the proper consultation.
I next saw the Director of the clinic at my proper consultation to get my protocol agreed (she talks through IUI, IVF, type of meds, goes completely thorough your file, tells you dates etc, that is the appointment where it all becomes glaringly real. - I saw the counsellor on that day too.
I deal with the embryologist for donor info and actually deciding who to use. she is lovely, very on the ball.
Blood tests, injection tutorials, scans, and trial embryo transfer have all been administered by different nurses. That what I mean about lack of care continuity.
On the phone at any time and again, many different nurses, but they know what they are doing, they read your file, so its all fine.
So essentially Im not under a consultant. It is all nurse administered, under the protocol directives of the Director of medicine. (I get the impression that she and the other consultant see all patients, and write the protocols personally, then its administered by the nurses.)
I deal with the lack of care continuity by having a large binder with everything in it. I write everything down and double check each next step against what they are saying.
Oh and when I had my medication meltdown last week they had an emergency number that is staffed till midnight and that nurse was great, knew her stuff, set me right very quickly.