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 Social Network-Savvy Doctors Share Step-by-Step With Students Published: Feb 18, 09 Comments: 1 Views: 1,587 Michigan surgeons at Henry Ford Hospital are using Twitter to teach new techniques. Teaching via social-networking tools is becoming more common as a tech-savvy generation fills the ranks of future physicians. Doctors are able to do minute by minute updates, sharing every nuance of a procedure’s complications and successes. Twittering makes teaching surgery a truly dynamic process. There may come a day when not only doctors, but patients undergoing medical procedures will routinely share the experience as it happens.  "Doing this removes a real communication barrier. It helps make something scary much more comprehendable," said Christopher Parks, co-founder of the Web site changehealthcare.com. "It brings us closer together and makes us more engaged."
Four months ago, Park's colleague, Robert Hendrick, tweeted his own varicose vein removal surgery here as it was happening (he was, obviously, under local anesthesia).
"It redirected my attention and allowed me to minimize some of the nervousness...
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