David Altman

Resident physician. All my tweets are encrypted messages, part of a grand conspiracy. Any other meaning they convey is purely coincidental.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

The Sunset District - from Grandview Park

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@nandron @luke_arkins Acuña has more plate appearances (PAs), but not necessarily more at bats (ABs)! PAs include ABs, but also include walks, hit by pitches, sacrifice flies, and sacrifice bunts (which do not count towards ABs). So Acuña must have a few more of those things, giving him fewer ABs.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@dieworkwear Have been very spoiled by living near great Ethiopian and Eritrean food in the Bay. I don’t know that I could give that up either.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@jtrebach Really bad B12 deficiency. Or toxic lack of blood pressure and no other pressors on hand.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@allisonoconn scored a 245 and a 236, or a 230 and a 221, for example. The test was not designed to be used for fine discrimination between scores, but became a crutch for programs that wanted to select applicants based on this kind of fine discrimination. (2/2)

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@allisonoconn Part of the issue with Step 1 is that it has never been good at fine discrimination of performance based on score cutoffs. One standard deviation for the test is about 9 points. But it was being used as if you could rely on it to reasonably distinguish between someone who (1/2)

[Athletics Nation @athleticsnation]

The Oakland A’s chapter is coming to a close. And it’s got Athletics Nation creator Blez not going with the team on its moving vans to Las Vegas. https://t.co/b6Lzwxaqfr

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@Kofie Flash Isaac?

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@FoolishBB @Kofie One of my favorite flash games, along with Flash Portal.

[Stanford Anesthesiology @stanfordanes]

Very excited to welcome our new residents to Stanford! Congratulations!!#Match2023

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

Matched to Stanford for Anesthesiology (and doing my intern year at Kaiser Oakland)!

Infinite thanks to my amazing wife, Madelaine, who has been with me through medicine’s many ups and downs.

#StanfordMatch #Match2023

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@EldestRain @BrendanBlaber Take a look at Jon Bois (and his work via Secret Base as well). I’d highly recommend this one, but they’re all great!

https://t.co/lvs11QOAPI

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Forced pregnancy is a crime against humanity.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Overturning Roe v. Wade and denying women the right to control their own bodies is an outrage and in defiance of what the American people want. Democrats must now end the filibuster in the Senate, codify Roe v. Wade, and once again make abortion legal and safe.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologues—attacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Overturning Roe and outlawing abortions will never make them go away.

It only makes them more dangerous, especially for the poor + marginalized.

People will die because of this decision. And we will never stop until abortion rights are restored in the United States of America.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@DGlaucomflecken Have you had that cold cheese slice on a Graham cracker at 6pm in the workroom after you haven’t eaten all day? Easily in the top 10 meals of my lifetime.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

@DominicRossini This would make the show infinitely less watchable and you know it. The show is, to exaggerate more than a little, an exercise in human suffering, and from this it draws its broad appeal. No suffering, no pathos, no show.

[David Altman @AltmanDM]

12.21.21

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@edmundmcmillen Flash Isaac seems so recognizable and appropriate as a name on its own!