Doctors Twitter live from transplant surgery
A team of doctors this week used Twitter to update relatives of a patients progress ... while they were operating on him.As three-year-old John Gilbreath received a kidney from his father at Childrens medical centre in Texas medics used a laptop to detail how the op was going.
Updates said things like "The kidney is making urine. Everyone in the OR is excited!" and "Dr Desai and Dr Mitchell are starting to close John's incision."
While some of the tweets were a little gory they had the desired effect of raising the awareness of living organ donations ... and at least they didn't use TwitPic.
A spokesperson for Childrens medical centre said: "Now that John has received his father's kidney, he no longer has to undergo dialysis. "He will also be able to swim and ski – activities he could never do before that his father always wanted to teach him.
"Chris is used to saving lives as a firefighter in Sherman, Texas, but he never anticipated saving his son.
"Representatives from the public relations departments at Children's Twittered live from both surgeries in an effort to educate the public and raise awareness of living organ donations."
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