Doctors Who Blog & Use Social Media
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Surgeons send ‘tweets’ from operating room (Video)
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Doctors Using Twitter
A survey released today by the Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that 61 percent of Americans go online for health information, and the majority...
The story
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 … Read the full story.
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