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Hospital uses Twitter for live surgery info

Micro-blogging service Twitter has been used by US surgeons to provide real-time updates on a live robot-assisted surgical procedure. Surgeons at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit have given members of the public access to its operating rooms – by live Twittering some surgeries Hospital surgeons earlier this month used the free micro-blogging service to post real-time updates of a robot-assisted surgery performed that morning on a 60-year-old man suffering from kidney cancer. Using the micro-blogging web site , doctors uploaded short messages

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