Someone recently tweeted this link to part of an episode from Grey's Anatomy (http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2011/02/10/twitter-as-a-learning-tool-for-surgeons/) If you look at the link, you will see it does not point to Grey's anatomy. Rather it's a link to a blog that focuses on educational and communications related technology tools. And, this episode is about using twitter as an educational tool.

Of course, this particular episode is still not quite reality. And, it's going to take time to get social media to get to the point where this kind of collaboration can really happen as a matter of course. I suspect that private networks or sub-nets are going to be necessary for this to really work. But, it's a really thought provoking glimpse of what might be possible.