GaltMD
Julian Galt, MD
GaltMD
Julian Galt, MD

Writing and tools from an emergency physician

Essays on medicine, incentives, and freedom

Long-form writing on emergency medicine, the policies that shape it, and the economics that decide who gets care and what it costs. The argument throughout is for individual liberty and for markets over mandates, made from inside the system rather than from above it.

Substack

Factory Rounds

Essays on how American medicine actually works: the fee schedules, the regulators, the liability regime, and the hospital incentives that turn physicians into line workers and patients into throughput. Published regularly, free to read.

Tool

The Slop Index

A companion to the h-index. It scores every PubMed-indexed paper by an author on study type, topic, and substance, and reports how much of a bibliography is original science and how much is politics wearing the clothing of research. Open source, runs in your browser, every weight exposed.