Proposal for a new law: Medical subspecialists are not allowed to decide the threshold at which conditions they manage are defined as a disease

Statement from Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist US Rabbinic Assemblies condemning violence from the Department of Homeland Security Proud of our Rabbinic leaders www.ccarnet.org/jewish-cross...

Geriatric Syndromes and Mortality Among Hospitalized Older Adults jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social @alexsmithmd.bsky.social @kencovinsky.bsky.social @maliberti.bsky.social

Heartbreaking

We Shall Overcome, we shall overcome We shall overcome someday. Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe, We shall overcome someday.

Don’t let this White House lie to you. Believe what you see. Alex Pretti was trying to help a woman off the ground. Then immigration agents tackled, shot, and killed him. It’s time for them to get the hell out of MN.

DA BEARS!!!!

Football season's underway Well, you'd better get ready for a brand new day Hey, Chicago, what do you say? Da Bears are gonna win today! They're singing Go, Bears, Go! Go, Bears Go! Hey, Chicago, what do you say? Da Bears are gonna win today!

Here is a feel good tear jerker! Letter from Elsa Mendoza to her son Fernando on the eve of his Heisman Trophy Award www.youtube.com/watch?v=STVa...

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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...

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...

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!

Wow. A World Series Game 7! There is nothing better!

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.

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!

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!

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....

Breaking News! 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/...

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: "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...

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

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...

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. 😤

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

"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!!

@deprescribeus.bsky.social @deprescribing.bsky.social @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social @gerisoc.bsky.social @caden-recad.bsky.social @alexsmithmd.bsky.social @kencovinsky.bsky.social

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...

🚨 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....

My great-grandmother was born 150 years ago. In this special article @agsjournal.bsky.social , we tell a little about her story and reflect on resilience and aging. agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @ucsfgeriatrics.bsky.social @alexsmithmd.bsky.social @kencovinsky.bsky.social

Hey Rookie: What do you say? The Cubs Will Walk It Off today! Matt Shaw's first MLB Walkout! Cubs Win!

"You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime you'll find You get what you need" --Mick Jagger

Can music play an important role for those at the end of life? What about for dementia patients and caregivers? We examine the role of Music as Medicine with 3 guests: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, and Theresa Allison. #medsky   bit.ly/GeriPalEp357 - @alexsmithmd.bsky.social | @ewidera.bsky.social