@tclare15 Thank you for sharing all of these details of your appointment. I'm relieved to know that your doctor spent so much time with you and explained, in detail, what and how the hysteroscopy procedure will go. Like you, I would be nervous waiting until April but it sounds like your doctor was reassuring about the wait. Perhaps there will be a cancellation and you'll get in before April?

I'm going to respond to your concern in a following post about residents present at Stanford during your procedure. I have received and continue to receive my specialty care at Mayo in Rochester. Mayo Clinic is an academic medical center and there are frequently residents and fellows in my appointments. I was referred to Mayo for endometrial cancer and so that's where I had my hysterectomy, my radiation treatments, as well as all of my cancer surveillance appointments. There was a physician present (fellowship in gyn-oncology, not a resident) during hysterectomy procedure and this was clearly detailed in my surgery notes. In fact, I met the gyn-oncology fellow in pre-op. I personally have great confidence in teaching hospitals because the residents and fellows are under the supervision of these skilled physicians who are on the faculty at teaching institutions. I was a professor in a university with an academic medical center and while my academic appointment was not in medicine I did interact frequently with physicians in research. I worked with physicians at "the top of their game" and this is what I have observed in my own care at Mayo Clinic as well as the care my partner receives at Mayo. They conduct research and they know the literature in their respective fields. I hope this will give you more confidence in your upcoming hysteroscopy procedure.