David Schenck on Into the Field of Suffering

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

DAVID SCHENCK is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A leader on ethics in healthcare and a long-time hospice volunteer, David Schenck is familiar with feeling overwhelmed and helpless while trying to help others. Spurred by the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline workers, he set out to reframe common ideas about caregiver burnout. The result, Into the Field of Suffering: Finding the Other Side of Burnout. Drawing on hundreds of conversations with healthcare workers and caregivers, patients and families, Schenck offers a radically different perspective on caregiving. Join us when David Schenck offers simple practices, caregivers can use to develop awareness and skills to avoid burnout and find renewal on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.