As a third-year psychiatry resident in at SUNY Downstate, a university hospital in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, most of my training time is spent working at Kings County Hospital (KCH), a large community hospital across the street from Downstate, serving one of the poorest neighborhoods in this rapidly gentrifying borough of New York City. I am confident that all of you must have either read or heard of “physician burnout.” Maslach and Jackson define it as “a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced personal accomplishment that can occur among individuals who work with people in some capacity.” In health care settings, resident clinicians are known to be its most frequently affected victims and literature suggests highest prevalence in the surgical specialties. Although psychiatry is considered by many an “easy and relaxed” specialty, psychiatric trainees and other mental health staff are not immune to burnout. The assumption that mental health professionals can utilize their skills to handle and ‘cope’ with their problems is as wrong as thinking that oncologists have a lower risk of cancer.