If you want fair, go to the carnival

Being a medical transcriptionist is sort of like coming across the last chapter in a novel. Because I do reports for a large hospital in the Midwest, every day I listen to one story after another of lives gone awry.

There was the teenage girl who lost an arm this July 4 when an errant firecracker exploded on her.

The woman who thought she was turning into a flying insect and jumped off her roof.

The woman who was beaten so badly by her ‘boyfriend’ he crushed one side of her skull.

And who can forget the guy who went out on his motorcycle wearing nothing but shorts and lost almost all the skin...