Unveiling Miracles: How Remarkable Sick Kids Restored a Doctor’s Lost Faith
Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin
Writing about dying children is a near-impossible task. The subject signals, immediately, that this will not be an easy read, and that the terrain ahead is steeped in grief and fear and helplessness.
And yet, in Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul (Chehalem Press, 2025), Dr. Robert Macauley does something reassuring: he neither flinches from that reality nor burdens the reader with unrelenting sorrow. Instead, he reveals the quiet, radical truths of pediatric palliative care: its heartbreak, yes, but also its fierce love, its beauty, and its grace. This is a book that insists we look closely at what most people would rather not see. In doing so, it upends every assumption about what it means to witness a child and their family navigate an experience that, for most people, feels unimaginable.
