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Kyle Fischer

@kbfischer.bsky.social
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ER doc and health policy fellowship director in Maryland. Policy nerd for the HAVI.

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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You’re not the only one! www.themarshallproject.org/2025/02/04/e...
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This Doctor Testifies for Firing Squads So 'These Men Suffer as Little as Possible'
James Williams is an ER doctor, a hunter, a gunshot victim — and the go-to expert for death row prisoners seeking an alternative to lethal injection.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Awesome! I’m doing to the DC show tonight!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Does he really think it won't be his legacy too? Everyone who has even vaguely followed this knew a public health catastrophe would happen as a result of RFK Jr. Cassidy could have tanked the nomination, but he chose not to. It's Cassidy's legacy too.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Not wrong! Vaguely related, my 9 year old made me skip “Kill Me” last week when I had the album on because “we don’t kill” in our house 😂
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At least with PCP, the clinical exam is usually sufficient…
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hope that helps! Not sure if it’s fancy enough…
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Glad you’re able to test for it. That sucks that it’s come to Sac. Hopefully it doesn’t stay as a regular occurrence for you all. You would think we’d have tons of it in Baltimore, but it’s been nothing like Philly. Fingers crossed
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
You learn something new everyday!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Alternative criteria that come to mind for me: 1. Your vocabulary includes both the words “Ope” and “fib” 2. You have strong opinions on the correct way to make an Old Fashioned 3. Your annual budget includes income from selling parking on your front lawn during Packers games
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I also came to say that I like the shirt!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Public health note about this article: The pills that tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl are almost certainly NOT what was advertised to the buyer. Hard to know, but he probably thought he was buying MDMA and/or a benzo. You don’t have to like the guy to want to prevent overdoses!
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 17/07/2026
Bart Say the Line meme:
Outbreak of cyclosporiasis occurring in michigan.

The CDC has a cyclospora lab, DOGE downsized it last year.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
That is legitimately crazy. You should post your “revert to the mean” shift summary after your next one 😂
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
History will not remember this Court as conservative. It will remember it as the Court that dismantled some of the most important civil rights and democratic safeguards of the last century.
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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The Roberts Court has become an unelected super legislature, rewriting decades of settled law, weakening voting rights, stripping away freedoms, and shielding the powerful from accountability. This is not judicial restraint. This is judicial activism in a black robe.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ha! The Consumer Reports study was the reason I got my level drawn. My twice daily protein powder was the same brand (but different variation) of the off the charts, alarm level product. My level was 0 but i switched brands as a precaution
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Interesting… Going to respond to data with anecdote. We love our fireplace and use it regularly. I had a blood lead level drawn in the last year and it was zero.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I don’t know why, but I’m happy to watch another team deal with his drama!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
He just has a hankering for PCC: peanutbutter crumble cookies
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Slightly increase a band FKA Sticks
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Don’t panic. Just make sure you have your towel.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Check out my thoughts on this study in @thetrace.org!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Trump's pardons have taken $113 million away from victims of crime. Immoral and unconscionable. www.thetrace.org/2026/04/trum...
thetrace.org
Trump’s Pardons Are Costing Shooting Survivors Millions
A Trace analysis found that revenue once generated by fining white-collar criminals is drying up — now that the president has pardoned so many of them.
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 09/04/2026
The SaFETy score predicts FV risk in general samples of young adults in the ED.
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Multisite External Validation of a Clinical Screening Tool for Interpersonal Firearm Violence Risk | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Screening tools for interpersonal firearm violence (FV) are needed to facilitate prevention. Objective: To validate the 4-item, 10-point SaFETy (Serious fighting, Friend weapon carrying,…
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
100% spot on. Whenever someone tells me AI is going to take jobs in medicine, I always remind folks that we still haven’t even adopted the simple and cheap technologies, like… docu-sign or a jotform for credentialing.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The fact that you can look at it and think, “it’s not impossible to imagine someone tripping down the stairs, falling into the gap, and getting decapitated when their neck couldn’t fit between the column and stairs,” is indeed, kinda sus.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I have a similar stress dream where I find out halfway through the semester that I signed up for a class I totally forgot about and never went to.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I have a similar stress dream where I find out halfway through the semester that I signed up for a class I totally forgot about and never went to.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Personally, I can’t wait to see the Indiana Bears rebrand.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Smart kid! Parents must be rocket scientists if something!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Having grown up in Wisconsin, all forms of cheese consumption are socially acceptable. If quesadillas can help spread that culture of cheese acceptance, then I’m all for it.
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 21/02/2026
"Will support proven, community-driven strategies to reduce shootings, homicides, and retaliatory violence."
gov.ca.gov
Governor Newsom awards $107 million to prevent gun violence and improve community safety across state | Governor of California
Official website of the State of California
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Congrats! Hope you’re savoring it!
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Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting @handle.invalid · 08/02/2026
By changing the way gun violence is covered, reporters can take an active role in minimizing harm to injured people, communities, and society—and even make an important contribution toward preventing gun violence.
pcgvr.org
Five years of work. One concise guide. Free to view and download now. – Philadelphia Center for Gun Violence Reporting
News coverage of gun violence often inadvertently perpetuates stereotypical narratives about the people and communities most impacted. Typical coverage focuses on individual episodes of gun violence…
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
How could we forget the death panel!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Dr. Flint is correct, though I would go a step further and just say “Avoid tramadol” and leave it at that.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 28/01/2026
“ @acepnation.bsky.social opposes federal and state initiatives which require physicians and health care facilities to refuse care to undocumented persons or to report suspected undocumented persons to immigration authorities. ERs are required by federal law to provide stabilization to all persons”
emergencyphysicians.org
Emergency Departments Should be Safe Zones for Patients
The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) is committed to ensuring that emergency departments remain places where all individuals can safely seek emergency medical care without fear. Patient...
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Now that EMS in The Pitt is giving appropriate, weight-based opioids to patients, perhaps med schools might think about actually teaching this? :::readers: Kyle’s biggest pet peeve in all of medical education is that 100% of trainees report to me that theyve never been taught how to dose opioids:::
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Just make sure they don’t accidentally make it look like a caduceus! The staff of a man who transported souls to the underworld is a bad look on a doc!
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 07/01/2026
friendly reminder: the adage is "one bad apple spoils the bunch"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/01/2026
Walz: "Do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever. I don't want to be right about this, but I said if they do this they're gonna create a chaotic situation where someone innocent is gonna get killed. And they did it."
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
After ICE agents shot woman, a neighbor approached and said he was a doctor and wanted to help, witness tells @byaaroncdavis.bsky.social Instead, ICE agents kept him away from the scene, she says.
ICE agents kept neighbor who was doctor from shooting scene, witness says
Aaron Davis
Video from Emily Heller's phone, which she shared with The Washington Post, shows the driver of the SUV slumped forward and not moving after the ICE shooting.Officers in camouflage and carrying weapons surround the vehicle and then keep anyone, even a neighbor who identifies himself as a doctor, from approaching the car to administer first aid, according to the video.
"Can I go check a pulse?" the neighbor says loudly, taking a step in the direction of the officers. "No, back up now," one of the agents says. "I'm a physician," the neighbor protests. "I don't care," the agent replies. "Give us a second, we have medics" on the way.
Heller estimated it took 15 minutes for paramedics to arrive, in part, it seemed, because their ambulance was blocked from advancing to the scene by the ICE vehicles.
Five or so first responders ultimately approached the car on foot, Heller said. They spent minutes with the woman who was shot and then carried her
"by her limbs" the length of two or three houses before they could get to an intersection where they could load the woman into an ambulance, Heller said.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Brilliant!
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
RFK Jr. trimmed the vaccine schedule without listening to anyone who knows medicine... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/h...
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Thomas Abt @thomasabt.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Here's me on NPR talking with Michelle Martin about what's happening in Baltimore and around the country. They dropped some of the specifics about the city from the discussion, so let me add those back below. www.npr.org/2026/01/01/n...
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Baltimore's crime rate dropped dramatically in 2025. A look at what the city did
Baltimore's crime rate dropped dramatically in the past year. NPR's Michel Martin asks Thomas Abt, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, what Baltimore did right.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Apparently my midwestern self is still in there, because I saw the card and thought, “They did make a movie with Escanaba in the title!”
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The @americanheart.bsky.social folks! When you decide you're so committed to the procedures of EBM that you completely ignore common sense. Also, the whole thing about alcohol possibly lowing CV risk 🤦‍♂️ www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This is absurd. Myocarditis was studied extensively during the pandemic. We know this because Makary himself would never shut up about it, while he would compare the rare risk of vaccine-related myocarditis to the imaginary scenario of people never getting covid. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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FDA chief says Biden administration withheld data on heart risk from Covid vaccines
Myocarditis is a known — but small — side effect risk of the mRNA Covid vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, information that federal agencies have discussed openly since 2021.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
I could say something to minimize the research ("internet searches don't equal usage") but in reality, I'm just jealous that they thought to do the study and I didn't. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Internet Searches for Lorazepam Following the Release of The White Lotus
This cross-sectional study examines whether there was an uptick in online searches about lorazepam after the release of the third season of The White Lotus.
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Kyle Fischer @kbfischer.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I still don't know how he didn't see this coming...
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