EP 67: Put Yourself First

Episode 67 of the Hope4Med podcast features Dr. Jamal Dixon, an internal medicine physician from Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from Meharry Medical College and completed his residency at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Dixon is a cancer survivor who was diagnosed during his final year of residency and now uses his perspective as a patient to help patients and caregivers through his program, The Caregivers Sanctuary. He shares his experience with burnout while working in an outpatient setting and how he overcame this period of burnout. We discuss the importance of putting yourself first, because no one is going to do it for you! We need to take care of ourselves first if we are going to keep taking care of others.