Doctors Use Twitter to Save the Patient

HONG KONG - When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March last, the doctors there use Twitter to help his patients.

The doctors through his Twitter account told to the patient where to save themselves, because the telephone network to die. Similarly, as quoted by Reuters on Friday (05/13/2011).

In a letter published in The Lancet, doctors and Keiichi Fukuda Yuichi Tamura said they were sending their tweets into 60 patients, by telling where to look for drugs at a nearby location. This is done by Tamura and Fukuda because they realized that the telephone network is damaged.

"Patients are our tweets are those who suffer from rare diseases and hospitals that provide the medicine is also very rare," said Dr. Tamura of the cardiology section at the Keio University School Of Medicine, Tokyo.

"We live to tweet to 60 patients and we'd retweet follower of his more than 100 times. Then there are some patients who can not reach hospitals because they itnggal places affected by the earthquake, then we bring the medicine directly to them through the car or helicopter, "said Tamura and Fukuda in their letter.

Short message services (SMS) and Internet social media are now often used by medical personnel around the world to be able to serve their patients with them.