"Understanding and Working Through Burnout" with Wendy Baer, MD

Wendy Baer, MD, is Assistant Professor holding joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Baer serves as Director of Psychiatric Oncology at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, and also serves as Vice Chair for Wellness in the Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology.In her work at Winship Cancer Institute, Dr. Baer helps patients and their families deal with the stress of receiving a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment. As a Psychiatrist she has expertise in treating clinical depression and anxiety both with medications and psychotherapy to help people manage emotions, behaviors and relationships. The fundamental goal of Dr. Baer's practice is to promote wellness and maximize patients' quality of life as much as possible. She believes strongly in the team approach to patient care and collaborates regularly with patients, doctors, nurses and social workers.In this conversation we talk about burnout: understanding the burnout, its signs and expressions. What fields and professions are especially prone to burnout? Does the role, the attitude, or the culture within a workplace make a difference? How and why the spread of burnout changed in the context of COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Baer also talks about working through and out the burnout, through better understanding its causes on personal level and taking intentional steps to structure your external environment and internal energy to combat it. We talk about taking care of different domains - physical, emotional and spiritual. Tune in to learn more!This podcast is brought to you by Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness. To learn more about our work, please visithttps://bit.ly/EmoryLM