My job is about being broken. Bones break and we take care of them. Dr. Fracture and I view x-ray after x-ray...day after day. We fix those, but we don't heal them. Our days are filled with surgery, blood, sutures, casts, splints, crutches and pain.
As I've lived the life of orthopaedic trauma at a large hospital for several years, it has now occurred to me that everyone at some point in their life is broken. Maybe physically, maybe psychologically, emotionally or spiritually...but most of us have been fractured. This blog is my reflection on being broken...and sometimes being healed.
