"Hey, while you're seeing your next patient can you be a bit quicker?"
"Can you see a few more patients in an hour?"
"Can you document on your electronic health record faster?"
"Can you treat your amazing people living with cancer faster, more rapidly, at full tilt, hurriedly, in the blink of an eye, at warp speed?"
"Do you want fries with that?"
Oncology is not transactional.
Medicine is not fast food.
Not fast anything.
Attending takes time.
Great care takes great communication and contemplation.
Cutting-edge research takes creativity.
Empathy is everything.
Except fast.