Jitterbugging for Jesus

This chaplain had a really grueling night of ministry at the hospital.
People have come to expect so much from doctors and hospitals and “miracle drugs” and technology that they’ve been conditioned to think we can live forever or go to the doctor or hospital and get fixed in a jiffy. I watched a doctor try to patiently explain to a family for more than an hour last night why an 80-something diabetic with cancer who came into the hospital anemic on Saturday was having wild swings in his blood sugar count, with it going so low at one point that he went briefly into a coma. Family was sure that this was because of the hospital and nurses’ neglect and they knew they should have gone to another hospital and it had to be anything other than the fact that the gentleman is well over 80 with multiple medical conditions and never mind that the overwhelmed, overworked, underappreciated nurses have been camped at his bedside for three days, they haven’t done enough for the family.
It all comes back to expecting miracles from medical people who, at the end of the day, are humans with human limits. And, for sure, technology and drugs and meds have their limits as well.