Possums, are there any alternatives for you there? It's such an intimate and confronting experience and you need to be 100% confident in your doctor, even though you do spend most of your time dealing with the nurses while cycling. It's your doctor that makes the decisions, and you need to feel that you can trust them, and that they will take your concerns seriously. However, I do realise that you may not have too many options in Port Macquarie.

Even being here in Sydney, I have a doctor that takes a personal interest in my case, knows our history, treats us like regular human beings, jokes around with us and gives us all the time that we need in a consultation. Of course, he's like that with everyone and so is often running up to an hour late (but this doesn't stop him spending an hour with you if that's what you need!).

I do hope it's possible for you to use a different doctor. There's no way I could go ahead with a doctor like that, but that's mostly my history of IVF complications talking there.

I've just been spending a bit of time with google, and while it appears that there's only Sydney IVF in your area, there are two doctors listed there on the web site, perhaps you could try the other one and see if they suit you better?

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