Detroit doctor tweets during surgery, garners buzz from across the world

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.

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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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