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Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor's Soul

by Robert Macauley

Palliative care shaped by personal history

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Palliative care shaped by personal history

Robert Macauley’s account connects his work in pediatric palliative care with a childhood experience of pain he says influenced his career choice. The description challenges the common association of palliative care with dying alone: Macauley presents it as care concerned with living, drawing on stories from his work with seriously ill children and families. His role as both a doctor and an Episcopal priest also places medical care alongside spiritual consolation in difficult circumstances. The book’s central thread is the relationship between a caregiver’s personal history and the work of supporting others through illness.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in pediatric palliative care and nursing-related subjects.
  • Readers seeking accounts of caring for seriously ill children and supporting their families.
  • Readers interested in the intersection of medicine, pastoral care, and personal experience.

Themes

Pediatric palliative careCaregiving and consolationChildhood pain and career choiceMedicine and faith

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Book overview

As one of the few pediatric palliative care doctors in the United States, Bob Macauley was used to people saying, "I'm so glad I don't have your job." To which he would explain that palliative care is more about living than dying, then offer to share some of the inspiring stories he witnessed on a daily basis. He might mention that also being an Episcopal priest helped him console people in the hardest situations. But he never revealed the true reason for his career choice: he didn't want anyone else to hurt the way he had when he was a kid.

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