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Brian Eichner, MD

@hereforbusinfo.bsky.social
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He/him. middle aged pediatrician, dad, husband.Opinions=mine. Gun violence prevention, peds complex care, anti-fascist. Social Justice. Bad jokes.

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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 19/04/2025
"House Bill 2250 would close gaps in state law by strengthening safe firearm storage requirements in homes with children. ... Nearly 300 Texas youth ages 1 to 17 died by firearms in 2023, making guns the leading cause of death for children."
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A basic gun storage measure could save lives. Texas lawmakers should pass it | Opinion
Among gun-owning parents who said their children never handled firearms at home, 22% of the children, questioned separately, said they actually had.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 09/03/2025
I’m a pediatrician and I love Medicaid pass it on.
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Reg Pither @reg-pither.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Want a little good news? HPV vaccination has caused a massive drop in cervical pre-cancers in young women in the US. Vaccines really work?! Who knew? www.livescience.com/health/cance...
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CDC data reveal plummeting rate of cervical precancers in young US women — down by 80%
New CDC data on falling rates of precancerous cervical lesions in the U.S. underscore the benefits of HPV vaccination.
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DSP💙#🟦✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Upcoming mRNA advances
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mRNA medicines we are currently developing
Track the development of Moderna’s mRNA medicines. From preclinical development to commercial phase.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 02/03/2025
Full page ad in today’s New York Times:
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Headed home from the meeting of medical school pediatric chairs - many of them also Chief Medical Officers for children’s hospitals. so much at stake for the health of children- all children
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Christopher Burgess @burgessct.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Powerful piece -- "What happens when we refuse to call out the destruction of democracy because we fear uncomfortable conversation?" via @natseccandor.bsky.social #NatSec #natseccandor #democracy #DemocracyMatters #YourVoiceMatters #silence natseccandor.com/the-silence-...
natseccandor.com
The Silence of Good People is the Death of Democracy
My friends, my family, my fellow citizens—there comes a time in history when silence is not an option. A time when looking away, staying comfortable, and pretending all is well...
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Brett Biebelberg, MD @bbiebelberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Do you decompress after leaving the hospital before you get home?
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
In previous job,I had 45 minute commute. When I switched offices (specifically to be closer to home), it was only 15 minutes. I started losing temper with my kids in evenings. I hadn't realized the long commute was a shield! Made some adjustments on my end+ turned out great,but was NOT automatic
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Stanford Department of Medicine @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Congratulations to Samantha Wang and Kevin Chi on their impactful article, "Answering the Call – Sustaining Equity Efforts in the Face of Regression," published in @nejm.org. Read it here: nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Fyi, Viviana Martinez-Bianchi IS real deal awesome.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/03/2025
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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FWC Indivisible @fwcindivisible.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
If someone thinks the measles outbreak and childhood death in Texas are "not unusual" or "happens all the time", they are deeply misinformed. h/t @adamratnermd.bsky.social for the inspiration. blogs.jwatch.org/hiv-id-obser...
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Tragic Childhood Death from Measles Reminds Us That Some Don't Understand Either the Medical Significance or the Human Heart
My ID colleague Dr. Adam Ratner, Chief of Pediatric ID at NYU Medical Center, just published an insightful and remarkably timely book called Booster Shots:  The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncer...
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Paul Kingsley @paulkingsley7.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Vaccinate your kids. “COVID-19 vaccines cut the risk of long COVID by between 57–73 percent in kids and teens, according to a study published today in JAMA Network Open.” arstechnica.com/science/2025...
arstechnica.com
COVID shots protect kids from long COVID—and don’t cause sudden death
Researchers recommend kids stay up to date on the COVID vaccines.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 22/02/2025
PLOS, JAMA, and The Lancet have made these kinds of important statements standing on principle. Any others?
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@DUH4Healthcare @duh4healthcare.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign
As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
nbcnews.com
A CDC vaccine committee meeting, the first of Kennedy's tenure at HHS, gets postponed
An HHS spokesperson didn’t say when the meeting would be rescheduled.
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Why are you all assuming there will be an election in 2028?
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Text received after phone conversation with a loved one re: trump "You’re correct that he spoke about the changes he wanted to make but I never dreamed he’d put unqualified people in positions of power, ordered mass firings without considering the impact, and ignored the law. " Ummmm ...?
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
BREAKING: David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting just been elected Vice Chair of the DNC. CONGRATS!
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Is it just me or are the words "new administration" the biggest euphemism ever uttered?
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Snarky pediatrician🎗️🦄🇮🇱🇺🇦 @snarkypeds.medsky.social · 29/01/2025
Gender-affirming care is lifesaving healthcare. Studies show it reduces suicide risk and improves mental health. Protecting access to this care is protecting lives. If he wanted to protect children, he should ban GUNS—their #1 killer. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
whitehouse.gov
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Policy and
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Update. Tomorrow is just a two hour delay. For inch and a half of snow 48 hrs ago
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Same!!!
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a man in a purple shirt is sitting in front of a computer with the word literally written on it .
ALT: a man in a purple shirt is sitting in front of a computer with the word literally written on it .
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
OMG the local news made a county by county map of who could use leaf blowers and who needed shovels. I moved south 18 years ago and STILL have not adjusted.
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Kathy Chambers 🟧🐶⚓️⬇️ @kjchambers.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Antioch school shooter’s alleged writings show he was inspired by the Goyim Defense League (GDL, nazi group that marches in Nashville), Candace Owens, and the Covenant School shooter.
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Purported writings from Antioch High School shooter show his plans, thoughts before death
Pages of writings from the alleged shooter at Antioch High School showed a layout of the school, the weapons he wanted to use and his thoughts about why he wanted to commit a shooting.
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
In other news 1.5" of snow here in Raleigh last night and tomorrow is second full day school is closed
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Boneafide🇮🇱 @bone00afide.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Reminder that it’s much harder to gaslight and float conspiracy theories to a well informed populace. This move will halt scientific advances and dumb everything down for the foreseeable future.
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Deanna Behrens, MD | PedsICU @deannamarie208.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It’s a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Trying to do one productive thing a day. Today I joined the AAP council on immigrant child family health Policy Platform Workgroup. Trying to fight for these kids
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Brave yourselves for more of the like.
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
This is one of the vilest things he did yesterday!
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WHO @who.int · 21/01/2025
WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw bit.ly/4hrbeJ7
WHO comments on United States announcement of intent to withdraw

The World Health Organization regrets the announcement that the United States of America intends to withdraw from the Organization.
WHO plays a crucial role in protecting the health and security of the world’s people, including Americans, by addressing the root causes of disease, building stronger health systems, and detecting, preventing and responding to health emergencies, including disease outbreaks, often in dangerous places where others cannot go.

The United States was a founding member of WHO in 1948 and has participated in shaping and governing WHO’s work ever since, alongside 193 other Member States, including through its active participation in the World Health Assembly and Executive Board. For over seven decades, WHO and the USA have saved countless lives and protected Americans and all people from health threats. Together, we ended smallpox, and together we have brought polio to the brink of eradication. American institutions have contributed to and benefited from membership in WHO.

With the participation of the United States and other Member States, WHO has over the past 7 years implemented the largest set of reforms in its history, to transform our accountability, cost-effectiveness, and impact in countries. This work continues.

We hope the United States will reconsider and we look forward to engaging in constructive dialogue to maintain the partnership between the USA and WHO, for the benefit of the health and well-being of millions of people around the globe.
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
I barely did. Luckily I carpooled with friends/classmates who were from RahChaCha and got to meet their families. Med school was so different 20 years ago! I remember running X-ray films around the hospital instead of pulling up on a computer- strange times!
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Buttttttt.....you didn't have to drive from Buffalo to Rochester's med school bookstore just to buy Robbins' pathology textbook! UB's store didn't have it, but was required. And no Amazon...book was most recently used a decade ago when my son's feet didn't reach the floor of his jumparoo...
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Paid 450/mo for 1 BR appt in cool area downtown Buffalo in 2004 for last two years of med school ( my previous 2 yrs in the burbs I split a 2 br, 375 each). Tuition my first year was 8k/year, 18k/yr by time I graduated
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Great. Just f*cking great.
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Heather @heathermd86.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Happy Hanukkah new years
Menorah with all the candles lit
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
🤣🤣🤣
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
#medsky @##&@ Nephron IS a word. Grrr
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Kaylan_TX @kaylan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Below is one of our dogs named Elton that my son got for Christmas 2 years ago. He sits there waiting for my son to get home from school each day just like this👇 Somewhere in Madison, Wisconsin right now, a dog is waiting for his child to come home from school too who never will💔 #EndGunViolenceNow
A  Sheepadoodle waiting on his child to get home from school sitting outside his bedroom door.
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God @thegodshow.com · 16/12/2024
Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
BREAKING: In light of the tragedy in Wisconsin, there is a massive digital rally happening NOW. Our message: #EndGunViolenceNow! Please share this social media toolkit & talking points with your followers & friends:
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Join the Digital Rally! #EndGunViolenceNow
Another day, another school shooting in America. This is a moment to get LOUD.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
"Stop asking why schools don’t have bullet proof glass & metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools HAVE to. That’s the question that needs to be asked”
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/12/2024
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens theonion.com/no-way-to-pr...
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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Joe Sakran, MD, MPH, MPA @josephsakran.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Uvalde: AR-15 Aurora: AR-15 Buffalo: AR-15 Orlando: AR-15 St. Louis: AR-15 Parkland: AR-15 Las Vegas: AR-15 Sandy Hook: AR-15 Waffle House: AR-15 San Bernardino: AR-15 Apalachee High School: AR-15 As we remember #SandyHook today, this partial list grows, as lives are lost!
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Brian Eichner, MD @hereforbusinfo.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Almost any PA requiring a "peer to peer" I've done was approved. But each takes an hour. They assume a certain % of docs won't bother doing it. Bc if they were just going to say " oh yes, you're right, the kid does need that" when I give the same info that was documented, why else do this dance?
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Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Not the end of rant If I wasn't clear in my posts THIS SHIT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME LIKE EVERY DAY This didn't happen 5 years ago at nearly the rate it does Insurance is important but the way it is run in the US it is just a way for rich people to siphon money from sick people OK now I'm done
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Kim Mukerjee, MD @kimmukerjee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Since Nov 5, my general pediatric clinic visits now often evolve into tearful discussions about deportation. And what to do with kids should that occur. These are real, terrifying, everyday concerns parents have. Elections should never rob children of their safety, dignity or family.
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