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Reading: Robert Macauley with Amelia Templeton
About Because I Knew You:
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.
Robert Macauley, MD is one of only a few hundred pediatricians in the United States who is board certified in hospice and palliative medicine. After simultaneously attending both medical school and divinity school at Yale, he completed pediatric residency at Johns Hopkins. For over a decade he directed both the Department of Clinical Ethics as well as the Pediatric Palliative Care Team at the University of Vermont. He is now Cambia Health Foundation Endowed Chair in Pediatric Palliative Care at Oregon Health and Science University. Having earned an MFA in Fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts—where he was awarded the Founders Scholarship—he is the author of the definitive textbook in his field, Ethics in Palliative Care: A Complete Guide (Oxford University Press, 2018), as well as over fifty peer-reviewed articles and editorials in academic literature. In addition to his medical work, Dr. Macauley is also an Episcopal priest, having served parishes in Maryland, Connecticut, New York, Vermont, and Oregon. He lives with his wife and four kids in Portland, Oregon.
Amelia Templeton is OPB's health reporter. She's reported for OPB since 2010. Her beats in the past have included Portland City Hall, housing and homelessness, and public lands. Amelia's reporting has taken listeners inside of some of the biggest news stories in Oregon. She's documented a day in the state's busiest emergency room at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, reported on life in homeless camps along Portland's Springwater Trail, and reported from the field during the Bundy family's occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. She received the 2013 Sigma Delta Chi award for investigative radio for a story about public safety failures in Josephine County and an Edward R. Murrow Award for her work on the "Oregon Field Guide" documentary "Glacier Caves: Mount Hood's Hidden World."
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