Life is not Fair

We had the nicest patient today. He was pleasant and happy and amazingly upbeat and positive. He had surgery to repair an open fracture of his hip and was going home to recover. Once more, I was awed by the truly amazing ability of the human psyche to overcome the harshest challenges life can bring.

He was crushed by a heavy loader equipment into a wall of landscape blocks. The driver of the loader was high on meth. That guy WAS fired. Was he charged criminally for anything? I don’t know. Meanwhile, this patient’s life is changed and will probably not be able to work for a while and that may or may not be financially disastrous to him.

Why DO bad things happen to good people? How does a hard-working, very nice, happy man have probably a year of productive life taken away from him by someone else’s stupidity? Life is not fair. It really isn’t sometimes.