With the way the medical establishment is managing obstetric care many women don't get in to see their docs until they are 8, 10, 14 weeks and sometimes later. But when you have a hard time getting in to see your doctor they are also giving you a signal that they aren't available to provide care to you in those early weeks, right when there might be catastrophic problems as in ectopic or molar pregnancy, not to mention missing other things like progesterone deficiency which some of the time is likely a cause and not a result of failed pregnancy (Coming to Term mentioned this).

It's so hard to know what feels right when so many of the symptoms of early pregnancy just feel like crap anyway. And we all know that when people post on teh pregnancy board that they are having spotting in early pregnancy and people reassure them that it is normal, we know that they aren't always right. I'm sure there are a bunch of women here for which that was the case. Or how about having your symptoms lessen? Lots of people say that it can happen that your body adjusts -- well this last time that didn't happen for me; that was when my pregnancy failed. Then when you add inaccess to medical care due to practice management* of course you are going to end up with a lot of anxiety.

* Practice management has to do with how medical office manage their practices. It's become a more organized routine with workshops being offered by outside agencies to doctors and their office managers. We see it as patients when you see a nurse practitioner instead of a doctor or are told you need to wait 2 1/2 months for an pelvic exam or that you can't see a doctor until you are 15 weeks pregnant and that you will see a nurse practitioner at 10 weeks. These things are not entirely based on what insurance will or won't cover, it has to do with maximinzing the number of patients the doctors can see and increasing their gross revenues some of the time.