1 recently evaluated a young woman as a candidate for possible cochlear implantation. Later that week, I read a detailed account of her appointment with me on her online blog. Several days later, I ran into another patient of mine, an 11-year-old girl with bilateral cochlear implants, while shopping for groceries. Her parents told me that they posted videos of her activation appointments for anyone to view online on YouTube. Through Twitter, individuals worldwide describe new events, breakthrough discoveries, and medical outcomes in short real-time bursts of text-tweets, that is-at such a fast rate that regular news agencies now report on tweets that are coming in. I have had several patients and students correspond with me through Facebook, and many patients that I encounter seem to have completed recent graduate studies on auditory neuroscience at Google University.
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