I think that your only card is to make it clear that the consultation depends on the availability of photos. Unfortunately, Crane has no lack of patients, so you probably won't get much leverage.
I keep hoping that my insurance contact is slow because she is trying to get my regular GYN covered for my hysto, but I feel that she should at least respond to my queries about the doctor who IS covered! (I don't even know who he is.) I don't know whether either doctor is free when I am (I have to write to my GYN and see when he is available; I'll do it this weekend).
I would normally have about a twelve- or thirteen-day window for this surgery, but one of my schools has an unusually late semester this year, so I've lost a week of availability even if I turn my grades in the day after the last class.
Things are so tight that I'm now considering the weekend after Christmas, and that scheduling gives me only a week and a half before I have to go back to teaching full-time--plus nearly three hours of commuting. Fortunately, I would have to teach only two days that week. I don't know whether a nine-day recovery is reasonable, so I'll have to ask guys who have had hysto. And I would be in trouble if I had complications. It's all very frustrating.
I hope that bottom surgery isn't so hard to plan. I'll be taking whole summers off then.
