🎙️ The Unexcused Wait — Part II: Doctors, We Have to Own the Clock
Last week, CROC Nation began a difficult conversation: Why are cancer survivors waiting longer to begin treatment?
Now, Dr. E turns the mirror toward the medical community—and toward himself.
In Part II of The Unexcused Wait, Dr. E examines the physician’s responsibility when seemingly small delays begin piling up between a cancer diagnosis and the start of treatment. A biopsy result sitting in an inbox. A referral that never arrives. An authorization waiting for approval. One appointment scheduled only after another is completed. Individually, each delay may seem reasonable. Together, they can leave a frightened survivor waiting weeks—or even months—for treatment to begin.
Dr. E also tackles a difficult word: complicity. Rather than simply blaming insurance companies, hospitals, technology, or administrative systems, he challenges physicians—including himself—to ask whether recognizing these problems without fighting harder to correct them makes doctors part of the very system they want to change.
Through the pioneering work of Dr. Harold Freeman and patient navigation, real-world examples from Dr. E’s own practice, and practical steps physicians can begin taking now, this episode is ultimately about something bigger than assigning blame. It’s about ownership, accountability, communication, teamwork, advocacy—and remembering that every day on the calendar belongs to a real person waiting for answers.
Dr. E also gives survivors and their families questions they can ask their medical teams to advocate for timely, coordinated care—because advocating for yourself doesn’t make you difficult. It makes you a partner in your own care.
Cancer is our business—and so is the clock.
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