Michael Burton
@MichaelBurtonMD
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Academic Hospitalist. Educator. Dabbling in Perioperative Medicine and Informatics. Tweets are my own opinions.
Dallas, TX
Joined May 2009
To all our veterans and your families: thank you. There's no tribute that can truly match the magnitude of your service and sacrifice. But all of us can do our best to live up to the American values of service, responsibility, generosity, and citizenship that you helped defend.
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1/ Why do we need to correct hypomagnesemia in order to correct hypokalemia? This thread is for all the interns out there, repleting, and repleting, and repleting...
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Following the horrific shooting in Pittsburgh, a verified GoFundMe has been created to support the survivors & victims' families. All money raised will be transferred directly to the Tree of Life Synagogue.
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This makes me sick. The physical and emotional pain of living with cancer is bad enough. I can't imagine adding financial ruin on top of it.
This is crazy. After 2 years of cancer treatment in the US, 42% of patients have depleted their entire life's assets. Unacceptable. https://t.co/AT1mzqQZJC
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We must be careful not to believe things simply because we want them to be true. No one can fool you as easily as you can fool yourself!
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The resident presented a patient admitted for chest pain after walking his dog. The attending asked, “What was the name of his dog?” The resident was stumped. Four years later, he’s not sure anything he’s carried from residency has been more useful than that question.
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Disruptions in sleep, nutrition, & activity during hospitalization are not mere inconveniences; they are detrimental to people’s recovery. Health systems must address. Great piece @paula_span @hmkyale
nytimes.com
Older patients are particularly vulnerable to “post-hospital syndrome,” some experts believe, and that may be why so many patients return.
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My son plays tag with his friends...on the iPad. This world is ruined.
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If you take any kind of supplement, this is a must read. Supplements: Are NOT regulated by the FDA Do NOT always contain what they state Are NOT allowed to make specific health claims CAN cause toxicity and interfere with medication Are NOT necessary or helpful for most people
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Please read my father's farewell letter to the country he loved so much - “Do not despair of our present difficulties but believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender.” 🇺🇸
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Safest level of alcohol consumption is none, worldwide study shows
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Being unconscious after a surfing accident is one of those times when it’s kind of tough to make sure you get taken to an in-network hospital and get treated by only in-network physicians. Read the whole thread from @chrissyfarr.
1) Catching up with @mwetschler, an ER physician who got into a surfing accident in San Francisco and woke up unable to move from the neck down. “A temporary quadrapalegic.” His story is the best and worst of the U.S. medical system
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ICYMI: FeNA & FeUrea are unhelpful in evaluation of acute kidney injury. better tests: renal POCUS, urine sediment, medication review for nephrotoxins, hemodynamic evaluation, perhaps furosemide stress test.
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"The real problem is that single-use plastic—the very idea of producing plastic items like grocery bags, which we use for an average of 12 minutes but can persist in the environment for half a millennium—is an incredibly reckless abuse of technology."
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People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes over and over. They go fast but they never get anywhere.
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This makes a lot more sense than our current “system.” Alas, there’s currently no political capital to overhaul 18% of the economy.
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