Medical Practice
After the 1968-69 NABL season, Burton ended his semi-pro basketball career and opened a medical practice in Grand Rapids, Michigan, specializing in obstetrics, gynecology and infertility.
Burton is a lecturer at schools, where he encourages students not to place all their eggs in the sports basket. He notes:
"Kids need more varied role models. … verybody goes out and buys a $180 pair of Reeboks and thinks that is what is going to happen to them. Instead, maybe they should buy the old $30 pair of tennis shoes and two books by Hemingway or someone else just in case things don't work out. You can have two dreams. Politics, education, the science fields, the computer age is here - there are so many dreams that these kids can have."
Burton currently works at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona as director of the ambulatory surgical center. He also maintains a practice in obstetrics and gynecology in Phoenix.
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