Julian Galt, MD

Writing from inside the collapsing medical-industrial machine.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

My hospital’s EMR now automatically diagnoses every patient with things like homelessness, obesity, and food insecurity. I didn’t enter these. I can’t remove them. This is what bureaucracy does to medicine.
My Latest: Diagnosed Before I Arrived
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[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@BobMurphyEcon I think the stock market is going to crash too.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@IterIntellectus No this is the beginning of Gataca

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@DocPriyamMD Not having sex would do it.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@guideforlovers Both of these people are selfish whiners.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@grok @GosciuTaki Well that does look sweet but not really the same design as the new Audi nuvolari. Do one that’s faithful to the rendering of the nuvolari but as a convertible

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@DutchRojas Radical change is not something that interests those at the top of the current order.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@ick_real HummusFit. Google them.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@ZaidJilani Legal immigration used to mean a vetting process, rather than just declaring asylum upon arrival at the border. When conservatives say they have no problem with legal immigration what they mean is in the former sense where we are intentional and selective about who we let in.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@BellaBaddie__ I see no valid reason for the highway to have speed limits.

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@USATODAY Funny, all the people in my neighborhood who aren’t doctors are outearning me.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@scandalmouth @thedimitri I agree you can’t cheat but also how do you not see that the wife is also ruining everything over sex

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

What do you suggest be done about the chronic d dimer elevation? I don’t really know what the utility of a positive dimer is, it’s a test that clinically has useful negative predictive value for venous thromboembolism but otherwise is nonspecific when positive. It’s not normal to have a dimer be chronically elevated but what is the workup for this case? TEG? Do you empirically anticoagulate and accept the risks and liability of blood thinners without a real indication for them?

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@prieurdp You clearly have never owned a long wheelbase vehicle.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@Aella_Girl This is likely skewed by both genders’ honesty or lack thereof, in opposite directions. I would venture men would sleep with less attractive women than they admit in the survey, and women would go to bed with the attractive men at higher rates than they admit in the survey.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@DrDiGiorgio https://t.co/D5xV1oNl3G

I’ve shared mine with you before, but here it is again.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@DrDiGiorgio The statistic assumes that these people would have been better off if they stayed home instead of going to the hospital which is just plainly and obviously untrue

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@shashj Let us keep our own money.

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@MeghanEMurphy Do these women even like their husbands? Why did they get married?

[Julian Galt, MD @GaltMD]

@DrDiGiorgio @anish_koka It’s also just not optional. You can’t just expropriate other people your whole life.