Doctors who twitter. I know, know, I really have to get on the ball about this. Actually, in this case, it’s surgeons getting into the twittering thing, posting comments all throughout surgery for the removal of a cancerous kidney.

It’s potentially a risky surgery, but everything’s ready: The doctors and nurses are in the operating room, the surgical instruments are sterilized and ready to go, and the chief resident is furiously Twittering on his laptop. That’s right — last week, for the second known time, surgeons Twittered a surgery by using social-networking site Twitter to give short real-time updates about the procedure.

Potentially risky surgery. Would you go underneath the knife while members of the OR team paid as much attention the 2-ton laptop in the room as they did toward you?

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