Twitter, tweeting, twit... it's all the rage these days. Even during
surgery. A Henry Ford doctor tweeted updates during a man's surgery,
which grabbed attention throughout the world.
Excerpt:
It's 7 a.m. at Henry Ford Hospital, and surgeons are preparing to remove a cancerous tumor from a man's kidney.
It's potentially a risky surgery, but everything's ready: The doctors
and nurses are in the operating room, the surgical instruments are
sterilized and ready to go, and the chief resident is furiously
Twittering on his laptop.
That's right -- last week, for the second known time, surgeons
Twittered a surgery by using social-networking site Twitter to give
short real-time updates about the procedure.
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