You Can't Make This Stuff Up (#13)

When you work in a hospital is major metropolitan area, you expect to see all sorts of strange situations or medical problems. Some of the situations are tragic but you expect to hear about such news as it relates to patients, not to one of your own staff members. One day, I came in early in the morning to a hospital I worked at in Miami. I worked on the 4th floor. There was police tape over the elevator door. Why? Well, as it turns out, the night before, a staff worker was moving things around the floor with a motorized forklift or pallet-jack type of device. The man lost control of the device and it went directly into the elevator doors, ripping them open, and causing him to plummet to an untimely death. The story I heard was that he landed on the ground and that the machine landed on top of him, but I was never able to verify that. Nevertheless, it is an incredibly odd and unfortunate story, reminding us of how our lives can all change or end at a moment's notice and that we should enjoy every moment we can.