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February 17, 2009A recent article from Medical Technology Journal cites increased physician use of Twitter as a networking medium:
In a 1990 interview, Dr. Richard Selzer explained why he was suited to short stories rather than novels. “The short story is rather like a surgical operation,” he said. “It has a beginning, middle, and an end—at least my stories all do: you make an incision, you rummage around inside for a little while, then you stitch it up.”
“That quote neatly summarizes the feelings of both extreme time pressure that most doctors have felt for the last few decades, and also the temperament of some practitioners, who prefer their professional communications to be short, sweet, and to the point.
“This may be why Twitter, an application that is Web-based and can also be used on cell phones, seems to have potential for physicians. Joshua Schwimmer, a New York-based nephrologist who pens The Efficient M.D. blog, says that Twitter use is starting to take off among physicians. “The medical blogging community has just exploded over the past three years, and the community of physicians on Twitter is slowly becoming equally as varied and active and interesting,” he says.”
Read the full article “Twitter: Fast social networking for medical practitioners.”. According to CNN.com, surgeons are even tweeting from the operating room!
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Cool,
I dont like twitter in the slightest, i think that it is very imperssonal and invasive..
Thanks