Ken Covinsky

NICO!

Nico Hoerner shines his golden glove!

Cubs Win!
Cubs Win Wild Card Series!
Cubs advance to NLDS!
11 Ws to glory!

WE ARE ALIVE, BABY.

12 more W's to Glory!

Interesting baseball season. No team achieved 100 wins in the regular season. No team even finished with a winning percentage of .600 or better. (Brewers were .599)

NICO!!!!!!

Brilliant Defense from Nico Hoerner. Time for another golden glove

PS: @Cubs Win! Cubs clinch home field advantage for the Wild Card Series! Post Season baseball returns to Wrigley Field!

Educational Strategies for Clinical Supervision of Artificial Intelligence Use | NEJM Many learners are more facile with the use of large language models in medicine than their supervisors are. The authors provide an approach to clinical supervision that can mitigate the perils and ...

Excellent article: Best practices for the use of artificial intelligence in medical education

Educational Strategies for Clinical Supervision of Artificial Intelligence Use | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

YouTube video by Marquee Sports Network Ian Happ gets emotional after the Cubs clinched a postseason berth

Breaking News!

Chicago @Cubs clinch playoff spot!!

There will be October baseball in Chicago!

youtube.com/shorts/NiB7g...

Hallways Feel Like Homelessness: The Geriatric Boarder Experience Older adults who are admitted to the hospital but boarding in the Emergency Department (ED) can have varied experiences depending on whether they board in an ED room, a hallway, or in a room in a ded....

What happens when older patient gets admitted to hospital from ER but hospital has no beds? Often they "board" on stretcher in ER Hallway Great article describes this terrible experience from patient perspective "Hallways Feel Like Homelessness" agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor:

"I Dissent"

The View From 18 000 Feet This essay describes the author’s experience with a mountaineering injury and how this immobility, frustration, and loss of autonomy provided a glimpse into patients’ persistent pain, fear, and grief ...

Moving essay!
"Entering patient rooms on crutches, my clumsiness trumpeted my disability, and my facial grimace communicated how intimately I shared their pain. I was in the trenches with them, navigating the same rugged terrain of disability+vulnerability"

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Article processing fees seem to be going up and up and up. It is a scandal and it needs to be stopped.

Anthony Rizzo: Forever a Cub

YouTube video by Bleacher Report Yoshinobu Yamamoto Loses No-Hit Bid w/ 1 Out Left, Then Orioles Walk Off Dodgers

A Bart Giamatti:
"Baseball will break your heart. It is designed to break your heart"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGe...

How hospice falls short
Families often most in need help of hand on help with caregiving. Yet hospice provides remarkably little help with caregiving.
Great viewpoint
Caregiving Under the Medicare Hospice Benefit
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

Justice Sotomayor: The administration+Kavanaugh “all but declared that all Latinos, US citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work + held till providing proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Second straight series dub. 😤

Motor Vehicle Crash Prevention | NEJM The rate of fatalities on U.S. roadways is much higher than those in many other high-income nations. The authors review evidence-based strategies for moving toward a future with no traffic deaths.

Terrific review article: Motor Vehicle Crash Prevention A multi-pronged focused on making drivers, vehicles, and roads safer www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

Concerning well-researched story @ProPublica shows VA health system having much more difficulty recruiting doctors + nurses. Marked increase in rejection of job offers. Our Veterans deserve the best care. Worrisome if best MDs/RNs dont want to work at VA
www.propublica.org/article/vete...

Socializing the Benefits of Entering Long-Term Care In a 2024 US national poll 33% of older adults (age 50-80 years) reported experiencing loneliness and 29% reported feeling socially isolated.1 Nursing homes and assisted living facilities (collectivel...

Thank you @nathanstall.bsky.social and Dr. Lona Mody for for their generous editorial helping to interpret results. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Socializing the Benefits of Entering Long-Term Care In a 2024 US national poll 33% of older adults (age 50-80 years) reported experiencing loneliness and 29% reported feeling socially isolated.1 Nursing homes and assisted living facilities (collectivel...

New paper in @jamainternalmed.com!

In it, we use data to examine a commonly held belief about what moving into a nursing home or assisted living facility (also known as a long-term care facility; or LTCF) does to your social life.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

YouTube video by House of Highlights 40-Year-Old Justin Turner BLASTS Walk-Off Homer vs Orioles 🔥

Hey Chicago, What Do You Say?

The Cubs are going to walk it off today!

@Cubs Win!!!

Great call from Alex Cohen

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LdP...

For Ryno #23

VOCES | Slumlord Millionaire | Season 2024 | Episode 5 Residents and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords for the fundamental human right to a home.

Slumlord Millionaire. Recommend this important documentary on PBS
How billionaire landlords take advantage of hard working tenants + use their $$ to prevent change
And when you watch, you'll understand why Trump and his billionaire supporters wanted PBS defunded.
www.pbs.org/video/slumlo...

A moment of silence for our Ryno in Milwaukee.

#23

Support Intervention for Families of Patients in the ICU This cluster-randomized trial assesses whether a nurse-led, interprofessional family support intervention involving engagement, support, and interpersonal communication with family members of patients...

Terrific RCT shows that including a nurse that psychological support to family members of critically ill ICU patients to the care team improves family experience and quality of care

Support Intervention for Families of Patients in the ICU
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Accepting Accommodations—Disability in Medical Training This essay describes the author’s experience with accepting disability accommodations for her migraines with auras while transitioning to medical school.

"I remind myself that accepting support makes me no less a learner—and that the auras that blind me have also opened my eyes to a world where disability is not embarrassing but empowering"

Accepting Accommodations—Disability in Medical Training
Insightful essay

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Here is today's baseball quiz.

Do you understand the infield fly rule?

Well Nico Hoerner does. And the White Sox did not. And Nico brilliantly takes advantage of that to score a double play!

@Cubs Win!!

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Reading Room This essay describes the importance of trainees and young physicians building a relationship with radiologists.

Once upon a time, radiology rounds were a daily part of the work flow of the inpatient medical team. What has been lost with its demise?
Nice essay @JAMAInternalMed
Reading Room jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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🚨 Undiagnosed Dementia in Hospitals 🚨

Our study validates the informant-based Clinical Dementia Rating to detect preexisting #dementia and cognitive impairment when patients are too sick to assess.

A step forward to safer acute & dementia care: agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....