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The Podium

Friday, May 15

Tweeting Under the Knife

By Brad

This whole Twitter thing may be getting a wee bit out of hand:

Here’s a Twitter first: On Monday, officials at the Children’s Medical Center Dallas and UT Southwestern will tweet live from the operating room while 3-year-old John Gilbreath receives a kidney transplant from his firefighter dad, Chris Gilbreath.

It marks the first time a hospital has tweeted from a pediatric kidney transplant surgery.

 

 

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