I recently switched from hospital employed to an academic job as a breast oncologist, with clinical duty 0.7. Protected research time 0.2. The rest is administrative/ teaching. Recently, the surgical breast oncologist left, and they are looking for a new one. The speed is down for breast oncology. The chief asked me to see some benign heme patients during my clinic time since the hematologists have a lot of consults. I do not like the idea, since my panel will be full soon with all of the benign heme patients. Is it a normal situation? I would rather use this period of time to start set up my clinical/ translational research. Needs some advice regarding this. Thank you in advance!