Social networking in health care: Surgeons and their patients

摘要: iPods, iPads, iTunes, I-this, and I-that. Sometimes, a mouthful of all these ‘‘Is’’ makes me want to say that I-can’t-keep-up. In our world technology, it is difficult know where turn next given the changes. Once upon time, someone had explain what ‘‘www’’ meant. Others then began ask whether I an e-mail account actually read mail delivered it. must have at least 3 accounts by now. find people asking about blogs, Myspace, Facebook. Should feel inadequate if am not ready for Facebook yet? How does Wizard Oz expression go? ‘‘Toto, we are in Kansas anymore.’’ It seems social networks just keep growing, too. Now, visit YouTube, Twitter, Linkedln, SharePoint. We also major universities creating ‘‘Open University’’ project podcasts education. What new derivatives e-world? Who this? Have you ever seen two collegiates, side side, each on his or her mobile phone, thumbs pecking away, texting one another? By now, my grandfather were alive watching this exchange, he would wonder failed as parents. Smartphones computer terminals everywhere---don’t talk Perhaps confusion might be how blacksmiths felt when Henry Ford pulled up auto without horse pulling load. The laughed they considered need gasoline autos stuck mud rainy day. story ended.