Comments on: Surgeons using Twitter during an operation, is live-tweeting medical procedures the future? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hashtag BrokeArm; Social Media & Real Time Medical Updates | DragonSearch Marketinghttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-109546 Hashtag BrokeArm; Social Media & Real Time Medical Updates | DragonSearch Marketing Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:46:10 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-109546 [...] also found that indeed some doctors are using Twitter during operations to broadcast their findings to other doctors.  The same blog reports of a Vasectomy Live on [...] [...] also found that indeed some doctors are using Twitter during operations to broadcast their findings to other doctors.  The same blog reports of a Vasectomy Live on [...]

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89984 Anonymous Thu, 26 Feb 2009 02:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89984 <i>This was a robot assisted laproscopic procedure. The surgeon driving the robot is actually not scrubed, but is sitting at a console. Awesome technology that has yet to be proven better than current laproscopic techniques.</i><br/><br/><br/>Yep, but the surgeon gets to bill at higher rates, the hospital charges double for the procedure because of its "advanced technology" and the robot manufacturer makes a few thousand dollars and sells more worthless robots to the other hospitals in town because they "cant compete" against Henry Ford if they are the only robot hospital in the area.<br/><br/>Meanwhile insurance premiums and/or Medicare is paying for all this crap technology when outcomes are absolutely no different whatsoever. This was a robot assisted laproscopic procedure. The surgeon driving the robot is actually not scrubed, but is sitting at a console. Awesome technology that has yet to be proven better than current laproscopic techniques.

Yep, but the surgeon gets to bill at higher rates, the hospital charges double for the procedure because of its “advanced technology” and the robot manufacturer makes a few thousand dollars and sells more worthless robots to the other hospitals in town because they “cant compete” against Henry Ford if they are the only robot hospital in the area.

Meanwhile insurance premiums and/or Medicare is paying for all this crap technology when outcomes are absolutely no different whatsoever.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89977 Anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89977 Mary: This was a robot assisted laproscopic procedure. The surgeon driving the robot is actually not scrubed, but is sitting at a console. Awesome technology that has yet to be proven better than current laproscopic techniques.<br/><br/>What is worse in my mind is that they have the chief urology resident sitting at a computer, acting as a medical secretary, instead of operating. Mary: This was a robot assisted laproscopic procedure. The surgeon driving the robot is actually not scrubed, but is sitting at a console. Awesome technology that has yet to be proven better than current laproscopic techniques.

What is worse in my mind is that they have the chief urology resident sitting at a computer, acting as a medical secretary, instead of operating.

]]> By: The Man-nurse Diarieshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89973 The Man-nurse Diaries Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89973 Too bad Twitter is blocked by some hospital intranets! :-) Too bad Twitter is blocked by some hospital intranets! :-)

]]> By: Buckeye Surgeonhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89972 Buckeye Surgeon Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:34:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89972 Quite possibly the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89971 Anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:33:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89971 The only reason that this was done was to promote an unproven, and risky procedure(partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma is considered investigational because long-term cancer free survival has not been confirmed). The surgeon at Henry Ford is obviously using Twitter as self-promotion and pad his pocket book. There is no benefit to the patient whatsoever and maybe some risk because of the distraction. The only reason that this was done was to promote an unproven, and risky procedure(partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma is considered investigational because long-term cancer free survival has not been confirmed). The surgeon at Henry Ford is obviously using Twitter as self-promotion and pad his pocket book. There is no benefit to the patient whatsoever and maybe some risk because of the distraction.

]]> By: Maryhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89969 Mary Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89969 I'm not a doctor. Can you please explain the physical steps a surgeon will be taking between tweets. Does he have to rescrub each time he enters back into the sterile field? I’m not a doctor. Can you please explain the physical steps a surgeon will be taking between tweets. Does he have to rescrub each time he enters back into the sterile field?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-operation.html#comment-89968 Anonymous Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2009/02/surgeons-using-twitter-during-an-operation-is-live-tweeting-medical-procedures-the-future.html#comment-89968 Why is this any different from the train operator who was texting and had a wreck? Why is this any different from the train operator who was texting and had a wreck?

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