Into the Field of Suffering: Finding the Other Side of Burnout

by Scott Neely and David Schenck

Healthcare providers are constantly confronted with illness and injury, and the challenges of healing. Yet this very work, the relief of suffering, inflicts on healthcare providers suffering of their own that is often crippling. The most common terms for the pain caregivers and healers suffer from are burnout and moral distress. These common terms are, however, often used judgmentally--as if those trying to heal others have failed themselves, their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197666736
• ISBN13: 9780197666739
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"