Worried about exposure to COVID-19? Check in with the University of Chicago and maybe they can break your back just as they did mine! Then all you will want to do is stay home!
In years prior, 2016, 2017 and 2018, I enjoyed brief mid-winter getaways to the Cayman Islands, a still-reasonable Caribbean spot with warm weather and beautiful beaches.
It was in 2018 on the last of these trips that I began to experience the pain that was shortly thereafter diagnosed as multiple vertebral fractures, occasioned by the delay in receiving my regular Prolia injections for osteoporosis.
This delay resulted directly from the failure of the University of Chicago to manage these injections properly during a change in medical personnel.
This was not a matter of an error in advanced medical decision-making. Rather this error, which effectively ended my normal, active life, resulted from a colossal and totally unnecessary failure of what should have been the routine clerical task of properly scheduling patient appointments; an error which persisted even when specifically raised by the patient!
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Travel has been out of the question since my back broke. But I'm trying to look at the bright side: travel these days, involving airports, airplanes, buses, etc. could expose me to COVID-19.
So, University of Chicago, if you run out of COVID-19 vaccine, you might consider screwing up the appointments of your osteoporosis patients just as you did mine, leaving them with painful fractures to give them plenty of protection when they can no longer engage in any normal social activities or travel without pain!
This discovery could surely reap another Nobel Prize or at least a Lasker to add to the University of Chicago's already formidable heap of these awards!
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