Ken Covinsky
@kencovinsky.bsky.social
Geriatrician, researcher, passionate about improving well being and quality of life for older persons
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So proud of the reform Jewish clergy of Illinois calling for an end to the ICE mistreatment of immigrants
"It is our patriotic and holy obligation to uphold a just immigration policy and help protect our vulnerable neighbors"
rac.org/blog/illinoi...
"It is our patriotic and holy obligation to uphold a just immigration policy and help protect our vulnerable neighbors"
rac.org/blog/illinoi...
rac.org
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
So proud of the reform Jewish clergy of Illinois calling for an end to the ICE mistreatment of immigrants
"It is our patriotic and holy obligation to uphold a just immigration policy and help protect our vulnerable neighbors"
rac.org/blog/illinoi...
"It is our patriotic and holy obligation to uphold a just immigration policy and help protect our vulnerable neighbors"
rac.org/blog/illinoi...
Much gratitude to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops for their condemnation of anti-immigrant rhetoric and plea to recognize the spark the eternal one in all of us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMQ...
Special Pastoral Message on Immigration by the Bishops of the United States
YouTube video by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Much gratitude to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops for their condemnation of anti-immigrant rhetoric and plea to recognize the spark the eternal one in all of us
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsMQ...
Hey Chicago!
What do you say?
We have 3 Golden Glovers on the Cubs!
The best defensive team in baseball!
Bravo Ian Happ, Nico Hoerner, PCA!
What do you say?
We have 3 Golden Glovers on the Cubs!
The best defensive team in baseball!
Bravo Ian Happ, Nico Hoerner, PCA!
November 3, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hey Chicago!
What do you say?
We have 3 Golden Glovers on the Cubs!
The best defensive team in baseball!
Bravo Ian Happ, Nico Hoerner, PCA!
What do you say?
We have 3 Golden Glovers on the Cubs!
The best defensive team in baseball!
Bravo Ian Happ, Nico Hoerner, PCA!
Wow. A World Series Game 7! There is nothing better!
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Wow. A World Series Game 7! There is nothing better!
Reposted by Ken Covinsky
At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
At the behest of corporate lobbyists, Trump's CFPB will block states from erasing medical debt from credit reports.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
This comes as the GOP allows ACA subsidies to expire – which could cause millions to go uninsured and medical debt to skyrocket.
A perfect storm of cruelty.
Baseball is an amazing and awesome game!
October 28, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Baseball is an amazing and awesome game!
NICO!
Nico Hoerner shines his golden glove!
Cubs Win!
Cubs Win Wild Card Series!
Cubs advance to NLDS!
11 Ws to glory!
Nico Hoerner shines his golden glove!
Cubs Win!
Cubs Win Wild Card Series!
Cubs advance to NLDS!
11 Ws to glory!
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
NICO!
Nico Hoerner shines his golden glove!
Cubs Win!
Cubs Win Wild Card Series!
Cubs advance to NLDS!
11 Ws to glory!
Nico Hoerner shines his golden glove!
Cubs Win!
Cubs Win Wild Card Series!
Cubs advance to NLDS!
11 Ws to glory!
Reposted by Ken Covinsky
WE ARE ALIVE, BABY.
October 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
WE ARE ALIVE, BABY.
12 more W's to Glory!
September 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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)
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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!
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!
September 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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!
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!
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....
Educational Strategies for Clinical Supervision of Artificial Intelligence Use | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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 ...
www.nejm.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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....
Educational Strategies for Clinical Supervision of Artificial Intelligence Use | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Breaking News!
Chicago @Cubs clinch playoff spot!!
There will be October baseball in Chicago!
youtube.com/shorts/NiB7g...
Chicago @Cubs clinch playoff spot!!
There will be October baseball in Chicago!
youtube.com/shorts/NiB7g...
Ian Happ gets emotional after the Cubs clinched a postseason berth
YouTube video by Marquee Sports Network
youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Breaking News!
Chicago @Cubs clinch playoff spot!!
There will be October baseball in Chicago!
youtube.com/shorts/NiB7g...
Chicago @Cubs clinch playoff spot!!
There will be October baseball in Chicago!
youtube.com/shorts/NiB7g...
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/...
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....
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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"
"I Dissent"
September 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Justice Sonia Sotomayor:
"I Dissent"
"I Dissent"
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...
"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...
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 ...
jamanetwork.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
"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.
September 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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
September 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Anthony Rizzo: Forever a Cub
A Bart Giamatti:
"Baseball will break your heart. It is designed to break your heart"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGe...
"Baseball will break your heart. It is designed to break your heart"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGe...
Yoshinobu Yamamoto Loses No-Hit Bid w/ 1 Out Left, Then Orioles Walk Off Dodgers
YouTube video by Bleacher Report
www.youtube.com
September 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
A Bart Giamatti:
"Baseball will break your heart. It is designed to break your heart"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGe...
"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...
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...
September 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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...
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...
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...
Reposted by Ken Covinsky
Second straight series dub. 😤
September 3, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Second straight series dub. 😤
Terrific review article: Motor Vehicle Crash Prevention A multi-pronged focused on making drivers, vehicles, and roads safer www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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.
www.nejm.org
August 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Terrific review article: Motor Vehicle Crash Prevention A multi-pronged focused on making drivers, vehicles, and roads safer www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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...
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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...
www.propublica.org
August 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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...
www.propublica.org/article/vete...