Mon, from my experience it seems to be fairly standard.

I only ever saw my FS at appointments. Everything else (blood tests, scans, etc) was handled by the nurses. If I had a tricky question, the nurses would ask my FS and then get back to me. When I was extremely sick with OHSS, my FS did call to check on me and see how I was going. When the scientists rang me to give me an update on my embryos that day, I told them I was feeling pretty bad, so they got the on call doctor for that day to call me. Just happened to be my FS.

My clinic also has different doctors do EPUs on different days. They actually try to plan to have a different doctor do EPU from what I've seen. I think it's so that you can have your own FS for transfer. Strange, but it works. I've encountered two of the four doctors that work at my clinic, and have been happy with both.

As for getting information from the nurses, mine were pretty good. There were some that I had to ask, others volunteered the information. I did get into an awkward situation during my stim cycle that I was doing things so weirdly that they couldn't predict what would be next - it became a frustrating process of taking one day at a time, but it all worked out ok in the end.

Overall, I've been pretty happy with the way I've been treated by the nurses, doctors and scientists at my clinic. The nurses have done a brilliant job of going between me and the FS, sometimes it can be frustrating, but you do know that when you are in there for an appointment you won't be interrupted by somebody else's questions popping up during your time with the doctor!

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