Michael Burk, MD

@mjburkmd.medsky.social

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Pulmonary and Critical Care Physician | #MedEd | #Medsky | #POCUS | @LouLectures founder | #Neurodiversity Fam | #Photography enthusiast | Nashville, TN | "Is going to need sleep" | Opinions are mine alone

"The Great Divide" on screen
A picture of a large stack of medical journals sitting on a desk in a doctor's office.
An open faced bagel with cream cheese, thin sliced steak, a slice of fresh tomato from the garden, with an egg over easy, chopped onion, and chopped Serrano pepper on top. Coffee and berries on the side.
A panoramic view of sunrise this morning in #Sanibel Florida with the lighthouse and Ft. Myers Beach in the distance. #Photography Photo taken at the end of the blue hour. The lighthouse on the left is framed by tropical vegetation and is still shining. On the middle and right, pastel pinks and some orange peeks through a deep blue and purple overcast sky over a still ocean and white sand beach.
A stack of game boxes including Fluxx, Sobek, Beer and Bread, Martian Dice, Jaipur, and others
Image showing a condensed version of the full article
A farcical example of a scrub advertisement showing toga style scrubs. Not actually real.
A photo of downtown Nashville from St. Thomas Midtown Hospital, the sun is about to rise and there is a beautiful orange glow silhouetting the skyline with criss crossed plane contrails showing up a light pink.
Snoop Dogg, looking distinguished, professorial, and confident with text "I said what I said."
A fake pack of cigarettes branded for a pulmonary group for April Fools
A large pine tree has fallen due to icing, obstructing a neighborhood road. A thick layer of ice covers the rest of the road.
A text between a post call physician and his spouse, saying "I am going to need sleep today" and the reply "That would be the title of your autobiography 😆"
Part of a slide both throwing shade at tOSU and taking a funny stab at injecting Gen Z slang into the lecture
Stick man cartoon drawing of a spit take while eating cereal
Three very much not goth dudes playing in a band calling themselves "Goth Babe".
A mailer from the AMA trying to tell people how they think that they are actually fighting for physicians. Unfortunately, instead of actually winning the most important battles for their members and patients they are changing boiler plate language and giving awards for burnout reduction programs while the rest of the house is being engulfed in flame.
Strip steak next to grilled mushrooms, pineapple, and rhubarb on a bed of grilled bell and banana peppers all on a white plate with blue flowers, sitting on a white stone countertop.
A photo of some fresh, peeled, sliced rhubarb on a paper plate with salt and pepper for dipping.
A rendered image of a set of colorful glass lungs in the style of Dale Chihuly, on a black background.
A rendered image of a set of blown glass lungs on black background, the outer glass has a cool bluish white tint, but the central airways have a soft orangish glow. The cartilage rings are accentuated while the distal airways are more whimsical.
A black bucket hat with GQ embroidered on it in white thread.
A Bluesky feed with a red butterfly
Image of part of the abstract from the RENOVATE RCT from JAMA Mar 2025
An ill advised press release from the Indiana attorney general stating that the most romantic gesture of all on Valentine's Day is to look for unclaimed property with your significant other.
A tied mens NCAA basketball game between IU and Purdue. In the crowd. A Purdue student has written "IU Sucks" across his proximal fingers, readable when he places his fists together in front of him. Another fan dabs, while another points to the fists.
A stainless steel plate with magnets requesting the ER doc stop empirically dumping social admissions to the ICU or they will wish the ICU doctor would have left AMA.
An image of Christmas wreath greenery in the shape of a set of lungs, on a deep khaki background, suspended in the middle by a red ribbon.
A map of TN with two tones of blue for different counties labeled for chance of having a white Christmas. The two labels are "0% chance" and "Also 0% chance"
An image of a Christmas wreath made from blue and green tinsel but wrought in the shape of a set of lungs, with white, silver, and gold small ornaments on a white background. There is a thin gold frame with small sprigs of matching garland in the top corners.
Indiana Jones in a plane telling his pilot Jacques that he not only hates snakes (including Jacques' pet python 'Reggie' who is sharing a seat with Indy and also who may have been the original snake on a plane), but for emphasis yelling that he really hates them.
A picture of a doctor stating: I spent the weekend with THE WOLF.
The band Guster performing unplugged on stage at the Ryman auditorium in Nashville, TN Sept 2024
An objectives slide for a PowerPoint presentation on interstitial lung disease with parody objectives.
Sunset and moonrise in one panorama with storm clouds on the horizon, shot at the southern most point of #Sanibel, FL.
Morning view of Smith Lake, AL with calm waters reflecting the treeline
A shot of the Louisville, KY skyline at sunset. In the fall, shot from the east, with fall foliage in the foreground, skyline in middle, And pastel blue and pink skies at the top.
A black and white version of a seaplane I took in Alaska
A more impressionist artistic rendering of a set of lungs, red and blue with almost wispy feathered styling on a khaki background with subtle blue marbling.
The light shines on the favored Guster lead singer in the Mother Church of Country Music
A book about the science of ketamine
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #198,568, Michael Burk, MD ‪@mjburkmd.bsky.social‬, joined on Jul 1, 2023"
Photo of a sunset transitioning from the golden hour to the blue hour. Green fields of alfalfa in the foreground give way to a tree line in the lower middle, with deep orange fading to dark orange, then darkening blue/black clouds further up.
The sun sets behind wooded hills in Tennessee, with a lake and additional forest in the foreground.
Eclipse, partial, through 3 stacked pairs of sunglasses
Kowalski, status report! (From the movie Madagascar)
My face photoshopped on a cartoon Gryffindor body, casting "Wingardium RASSiosa!"