My kids have been mocking me because I admitted that I use Twitter for Placebo Journal related material. To be honest, I thought I wouldn't be using it when it first came out. Who wants to know my thoughts? Hell, who wants to know anybody else's thoughts? Yet, I succumbed to the pressure and have been "tweeting" now and then. It can get out of hand, though. Athletes are using it, and getting in to trouble, during games. Actors are using it. Now some surgeons and staff are using it. Recently, at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, the surgical team tweeted live updates from the operating room. Examples included:
- Dr. Singhal is scrubbing in to prepare for the surgery.
- So far, Dr. Singhal has made an incision on 1 side of the patient’s neck, & the team is preparing the tissue expanders for insertion.
- Dr. is pleased with the insertion of the 1st expander. He’s starting on the 2nd incision now
- Dr. requested another suture for 2nd incision, and is preparing to insert the expander.
- By inflating the expanders over time, new skin will continue to stretch and grow.
I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if the tweets were ACTUALLY what the doctor and staff were really thinking? Now that is something I would love to follow closely. Examples I could see being tweeted would be:
- Damn, my back is killing me
- Dr. Laird has horrible breath
- Look at those cans
- Who farted?
- The thigh bone is connect to the...what was that aga...oh, yeah...the knee bone
- Is the anesthesiologist asleep again?
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