Are you a healthcare professional feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, or questioning how long you can keep going? Burnout in medicine is real and you're not alone. In this podcast episode, Dr Emma Presern shares her personal story of burnout and recovery, and how self-care could hold the key to transforming healthcare from the inside out.

Dr Emma Presern is a GP locum, Lifestyle Medic, and the founder of Rebellious Health. She joins us on HCA Talks Health to discuss the growing burnout crisis in healthcare and why it’s not just acceptable but essential for clinicians to prioritise their own wellbeing.

This episode is for doctors, nurses and any healthcare professional struggling with the weight of constant giving. Dr Presern talks about what led her to the edge of burnout, the warning signs she missed, and the mindset shifts and recovery techniques that helped her rebuild a more sustainable, human-centred approach to care.

🎧 Tune in to explore:

• Burnout in healthcare: causes, symptoms, and how to spot it early
  
  
• Why self-care is not selfish and how it can protect your ability to care for others
  
  
• Rebellious Health: a new movement advocating for clinician wellbeing
  
  
• How restoring the art of medicine — intuition, empathy, creativity — could spark system-wide change
  
  
• Tools and strategies for recovery, boundaries, and long-term sustainability in healthcare

⏱️ Timestamps:

0:00: Introduction

0:45: What is Rebellious Health?

3:00: The current healthcare system and why it is leading to burnout for many 

7:40: Dr Emma’s own health journey and personal experience of burnout in healthcare 

15:00: Simple strategies to recover from burnout in the workplace

18:55: How Rebellious Health is helping other healthcare professionals to prevent burnout and reconnect with themselves and their practice 

22:40: Why a system-wide change is needed more than ever in healthcare and what that could look like 

28:30: Final thoughts and further resources 

For more information on Rebellious Health, visit: www.rebelliousmedic.com 

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