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  • We were able to notify displaced patients via Twitter on where to acquire medications. These ‘tweets’ immediately spread through patients’ networks, and consequently most could attend to their essential treatments.
    BBC News - Twitter ‘vital’ link to patients, say doctors in Japan (via bijan)
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