It's infuriating and it feels like a bait and switch. Instead, you wait three weeks for an appointment only to learn that you're seeing some nurse who thinks he/she knows as much as the actual doctor. You should have a right to know they're pushing you off on some assistant. If they can't see you, they should tell you. I get that doctors are busy, but fuck, enough of this already. Imagine being a PA or NP, thinking you know as much as the licensed, trained physician but making that one vital, critical mistake. I used to work in healthcare and I know that a lot of medical office people eventually think they know all kinds of things about medicine. But he is NOT a urologist or surgeon and that's who we were there to see. When I asked why they didn't tell us that, I got the usual 'Oh, Dan is our NURSE PRACTITIONER, he's able to talk to you.' REALLY? He was a really nice guy, seemed knowledgeable enough, even kind of cute. I was told that the Doctor is out on Fridays. But we had to see the nurse practitioner. We were to be going over the imaging today and discussing next steps, (a biopsy). My 85-year-old father had to see a specialist due to a nodule they have detected on his prostate.