Novel use for text messaging 1

I found the following article, which makes for some sobering reading: Surgeon Carries out amputation by text. The bit that fascinates me is the fact that something like this couldn't really be done by you or I - we haven't the requisite set of skills to base the procedure on - but that something so simple as SMS enabled the inductive small step to allow that surgeon to save the boy's life. Had SMS not been available, that boy would have died....