Start looking for another DOCTOR?

[AutumnMiller]

I've been trying to schedule this surgery and the lady that schedules them is telling me it might take us a month because they are booked up in the OR but she is trying to figure a way to squeeze me in.. My Doctor said we'd have it as an ASAP because of the pain and we might be able to have it done before THANKSGIVING.. I left a message to have the DOCTOR HERSELF CALL ME BACK. Should I start looking for another dr? SHould this kind of surgery be put off that long?

[AutumnMiller]

My dr is going to schedule it on a day that she is on call.. so hopefully i won't have to wait too long. I do agree that if i switch drs i won't get in any faster.. soi'll have her do it.. its on dec 7th.

[rmarie]

I had to wait a couple of weeks, because of scheduling problems and then the time was at 4 pm in the afternoon.  Unfortunately if it is a busy and good hospital, then the OR is booked, however where I was operated on, they run an evening shift.  I worked in the hospital and still had to wait, had nothing to do with my physician.  The wait is terrible, sorry this is happening to you.

[Casey06]

It's worth the wait even if you have to, for a Gyn Onc. It may not be a longer wait though. My gyn onc scheduled it 2 weeks after my 1st appointment and his scheduler told me she would look for an opening sooner if I wanted. I said I can wait, I need time to get my house and work straighted around.
I guess every doc is different.

Good luck.

[hopeshell]

I had trouble getting mine scheduled too.  It was a month before I actually got my surgery....gyno did his tests then referred me to gyn/onc...they tried to find a date to do the surgery together and then finally the gyn/onc took over and said he wanted to do the surgery himself.  It was a long, excruciating wait!  My cancer was staged 1a so they thought my mass was probably just a cyst because they didn't see enlarged nodes, etc. in my scans.  I think that when they don't see other signs of cancer in your scans other than the mass...they aren't in as much of a rush.  It may just be that they are too backlogged though.  The most important thing is that you get a gyn/onc to do your surgery.  I'll bet if you switch now your surgery will end up further off than if you wait with this dr.  Just my opinion.  Good luck.