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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Mask, Scalpel and Tweet!

Brace yourselves, Social Networking has reached the Operation Theater.
Surgeons at several US hospitals are using Twitter to provide blow-by-blow accounts of medical procedures to anxious relatives, other doctors and members of the public.

Doctors at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit provided live updates of an "Awake Craniotomy" to remove a brain tumor. Doctors say [and even me], it is an effective way to transmit findings instantly and educate a world wide audience.

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