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Putting on Our Own Oxygen Masks First

COLLEEN T. FOGARTY, MD, MSc, FAAFP
CHRISTINE M. LY, MD, PhD

FPM. 2025;32(4):56.

Author disclosures: no relevant financial relationships.

Practicing family medicine is busy, but subordinating our basic needs does not help us provide better care for our patients.

Dr. Fogarty is the William Rocktaschel professor and chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.

Dr. Ly is a recent graduate of the Highland Hospital/University of Rochester Medical Center Family Medicine Residency program and is now in a sleep medicine fellowship at Emory University in Atlanta. She plans to practice primary care in the future.

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