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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 5d

NICO!

Nico Hoerner shines his golden glove!

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

Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 5d

NICOOOOO HOPS.

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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 5d

WE ARE ALIVE, BABY.

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 7d

12 more W's to Glory!

Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 7d

That's game one. #FlyTheW

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 9d

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)

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 10d

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!

Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 10d

soaring & flying

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 12d

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 | 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

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 20d

Breaking News!

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

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 27d

Justice Sonia Sotomayor:

"I Dissent"

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 27d

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...

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

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 27d

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

Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 27d

Anthony Rizzo: Forever a Cub

Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · 27d

There will only ever be one Anthony Rizzo.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWz8...

Cubs legend, 2016 World Series champion Anthony Rizzo announces his retirement from baseball

YouTube video by Marquee Sports Network

www.youtube.com

Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 28d

A Bart Giamatti:
"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

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Supreme Court Lifts Restrictions on L.A. Immigration Stops

www.nytimes.com

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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · Sep 3

Second straight series dub. 😤

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · Aug 11

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...

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

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Kenneth Lam @drklam.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

jamanetwork.com

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Kenneth Lam @drklam.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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...

jamanetwork.com

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

40-Year-Old Justin Turner BLASTS Walk-Off Homer vs Orioles 🔥

YouTube video by House of Highlights

www.youtube.com

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · Aug 2

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...

VOCES | Slumlord Millionaire | Season 2024 | Episode 5

Residents and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords for the fundamental human right to a home.

www.pbs.org

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Chicago Cubs @cubsbot.bsky.social · Jul 29

A moment of silence for our Ryno in Milwaukee.

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Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · Jul 30

#23

Ken Covinsky @kencovinsky.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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...

jamanetwork.com

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