"Management of a missed miscarriage"

I’ve been seeing Fiona Stanley for management of a missed miscarriage for the last month. First visit I believe I waited 2 hours in the gynaecology clinic for a booked appointment around mid-morning. Then had 2 subsequent appointments and I have had 2 doses of misoprostol 1 week apart with no success, and then I was booked in recently and spent 11 hours in day surgery waiting for a dilation and curettage (d&c) that never happened.

As you can imagine I’m already distressed enough having to go through this then to be fasted for 23 hours and to be made to wait 11 hours is, I feel, unbelievable. At no point in booking this in with the gynaecology clinic was I told it was not a booked procedure and I would be going on the emergency surgery list as mine was not an elective surgery that could have a definite surgery slot. This was all told to me after 8 hours of waiting in day surgery recently. It’s been a month, I’ve been emotionally and physically dealing with this miscarriage and looks like I’ll have another week or so of this ordeal left. 

The gynaecologist saw me late in the afternoon to explain they would not be doing this 15-minute procedure that day, suggested booking through private so I’ll be calling around everyone to see who I can get in with first. I feel very disappointed by the public system. I believe I will not be going back to Fiona Stanley.