In this interview, Dr. Shannon Ruzycki discusses the problem of physician burnout. She offers practical advice to help physicians recognize it in themselves and in their colleagues. She also discusses strategies to cope and to prevent the problem in the first place.Dr. Ruzycki is a general internal medicine fellow at the University of Calgary. She co-authored a Practice article published in CMAJ called “Five things to know about physician burnout.”Full practice article: www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.170827Podcast transcript: https://www.cmaj.ca/transcript-170827Subscribe to CMAJ Podcasts on Apple Podcasts or your favourite podcast app. You can also follow us directly on our SoundCloud page or you can visit www.cmaj.ca/page/multimedia/podcasts.