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I agree that inconvenient as it sounds, a 2-hour drive is worth it to finally get some reliable care and good information. Go to a teaching hospital or breast center. Most of those places now have something called a nurse navigator - that's a nurse assigned to you who gives you her cel phone # and will answer your calls immediately (or get right back to you), and book all appointments with ALL specialists for you, staying out in front of your care so it stays on a timely course. My nurse navigator has angel wings - she even answered my call to her cel phone in the middle of a fire drill!
They do a LOT to answer questions, keep you on schedule, make sure your diagnostics and procedures get scheduled in a timely manner...........and generally reducing the worry factor. I would move on from your PCP asap. There re a whole lot of elements and specialties involved in good breast care......and in a good hospital system, they coordinate with each other in a spectacular way. Don't be afraid to take charge of your health - you're too important!

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Turns out I have to go 2 hours away. Just more hiccups in this process. I decided to just go ahaead and do the biopsy right here to get it done quickly. So started early this morning. Called breast center here to schedule MRI guided biopsy….this is where my doctor office sent order. The young lady informs me she spoke with the nurse at my doctors office last week and told her they could not do MRI guided biopsy here and that I would have to go north to Christiana. I was never told that. So now I have called them and they are having someone call me back. Wheels are turning awfully slow!