Mon,
In my experience I only ever saw my FS in my appt prior to my cycle, at EPU and at transfer. My clinic's policy is that your FS does your EPU and transfer, but on one occasion he was on leave and another Dr did my EPU. He did warn me he wouldn't be there, so that was fine. The clinic rotates the Drs who do the follicular scan though.
The first few cycles, I was okay about only seeing my Dr at those times, but in latter cycles, I did not hesitate to contact him before/during/after a cycle with any questions, ideas or concerns I had. This is always an option available to you.
And yes, I hear from a lot of women that the nurses will only give you enough information to get by, and will often not volunteer any more. I reckon that they think it's easy to overload on information when you're just starting out, or can be intimidated by it, but personally I would rather not be left in the dark about it, and would prefer if they gave me a full and detailed explanation from the get-go. I found most of my answers on the net and armed myself with questions and bombarded my FS and the clinic with them. In time they stopped treating me like I was incapable of understanding and told me everything up front. But I don't think this is the usual default mode for most clinics though, unfortunately!
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