Based on the context and the answer, generate a question. 

Context: But it worked out quite well anyway , and I find myself thinking maybe that is fate . Maybe somehow my hubris with my other older , Polish patient who suffered such a terrible loss , maybe somehow I provoked the fates to turn on us . I say us because I know my suffering was nothing like hers , but was a suffering still .

Answer:

The Polish person just lost a family member .



Why does the narrator have such empathy for the Polish person ?