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Prof Julian Burton 🌈

@julianburton.bsky.social

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Prof of Medical Education, Former ACP Chair of Council. Retired autopsy pathologist. Own views. T/RT ≠ medical advice. He/Him Interests: medical education, pathology, food, travel/cruises. (Interested in politics etc but rarely post about that)

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Nov 13

My mum dying suddenly and unexpectedly was, by a wide margin, the worst experience of my life. Made immeasurably more tolerable by support from family, friends and colleagues. I wrote about it in #ACPnews

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Aug 17

"I like Demis Roussos, Ange likes Demis Roussos, Tone likes Demis Roussos and Sue would like to hear Demis Roussos."

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · Aug 16

I'm here to chew gum and shitpost about science and I'm all out of gum. cartoon via @xkcd.com

Cell Organelle diagram by XKCD's Randall Monroe
Among the identified cell parts are: Smooth Endoplasmic reticulum, rought er, cellophane, natural flavor, pleiades, sticky er, norton antivirus, golgi apparatus, drain plug, evil er, ...

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · Jul 31

That’s it lads, 36 years five months and four days, and it’s my last day at the BBC.

WE DO THIS NOT BECAUSE IT IS EASY,
BUT BECAUSE WE THOUGHT
IT WOULD BE EASY

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jul 20

People in the public eye are still people. In fact, we don't have the right to expect to be told that she is ill, or the nature of that illness. That we know she has been ill/had cancer means we already know more than we have a right to expect.

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jul 20

Sorry -strong disagree. The right to medical privacy means nothing if you are only going to apply it selectively. A person might choose to be a 'beacon of hope', but it is not right to expect them to. Why should she have to be a beacon of hope and not some other person with cancer?

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jul 7

It is wonderful here. It is also very hot. Like being air fried.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jul 2

You don't need to memorise Krebs' cycle - only the substrates and enzymes.

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jul 2

I once upset my brother by using a bottle of Laphroaig that he gave me to make christmas cakes. They were tremendous, though. I WOULD DO IT AGAIN!

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jun 15

Yes! When we're celebrating we go and press our noses against the windows

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jun 15

As a Brit, I have seen a lot about this on Bluesky in the last 24 hours. But I have seen nothing from the President denouncing the violence at all. Has he not said anything, or am I in an echo chamber?

(It would be hard to imagine the UK prime minister )saying nothing if an MP were killed.)

Senator Lisa Blunt Rochester @bluntrochester.senate.gov · Jun 14

This is a dark day.

Political violence has no place in our democracy. All of our leaders must stand united in condemning this terrible news out of Minnesota.

I am praying for the victims, their families, and their constituents as they process an unspeakable tragedy.

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman killed, State Sen. John Hoffman in grave condition in 'targeted political violence'

A manhunt is now underway for the gunman who was impersonating a police officer.

abcnews.go.com

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jun 15

Ah but D Dimer is an excellent way to find out if the haematology laboratory is open.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Jun 15

We have electricity AND indoor plumbing these days, you know!

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AndrewFolpe @folpe-mn-st.bsky.social · Jun 5

#PathSky 53F with shortness of breath and “ground glass” pulmonary opacity. Not a hard dx, but a spectacular (if very unfortunate) case.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · May 10

kidney. Oxalate crystals in tubules. Poisoned?

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · May 4

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · May 3

Tar Wars

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · May 2

I am deeply suspicious that all of the people in the leaflet look so happy. Still, it all looks very clean. I suppose that's a bonus - if you are going to get your colon out in front of strangers, you don't want it to get covered in cat hair.

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · May 2

Life has a way of keeping one down to earth. Yesterday I found out I am getting a medal. Today - well, it looks like I need a colonoscopy.

Delighted about the former. More than a little anxious about the latter.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Apr 30

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Apr 30

Do raccoons get cryptosporidiosis? It looks as though this one has!

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · Apr 28

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Title:
SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING

ACTIVE VOICE
e.g.
Our team collected samples and then we tested them.

CLICKBAIT VOICE
e.g.
We collected some samples...
You won't believe what happened next!

PASSIVE VOICE
e.g.
Samples were collected and tested.

HAIKU VOICE
e.g.
Quiet science lab.
Workers arrive with samples.
The testing begins.

PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE
e.g. We did all the collecting and testing.
No need to thank us.
Just doing our job.

CONSPIRACY VOICE
e.g.
Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

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Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Apr 19

Well, thanks for the spoiler.

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Apr 19

In a sense he is right - if you have a 100% healthy population, prevention is better than cure.

But if you have a population with chronic diseases (and you always will!), then the best way to reduce medication expenditure is to reduce the cost of the medications.

Prof Julian Burton 🌈 @julianburton.bsky.social · Apr 19

Cadaverine

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Apr 14

I did a thing about being chopped in half that none of you will like, so you probably shouldn't read it. Especially not over lunch.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...

Russell Jones's Week Moment: My Cancerversary

15 years after the removal from his kidney of the biggest tumour in Stockport, Russell Jones commemorates the agony and reflects on the heroism of the NHS doctors and nurses who saw him through

www.bylinesupplement.com

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