I think the whole GuruHive will agree that for too way long, the MSM (Mainstream Medicine) have been telling us what to think about surgical procedures.

Well now, “the people formerly known as the patients”, empowered by peer-to-peer technologies and ShareThinking ™, are taking responsibility for everything from angioplasties to apendectomies. And – you guessed it - the “pros” aren’t happy about the threat to their elite club!

Bork Halvekkian, author of the bestseller, We the Anesthetists, puts it this way:

“People struggle to get an appointment for surgery, and hear on the Internet about instances of malpractice.”

“They see a neurologist making a six-figure salary, and think, ‘I could do that!’”

Halvekkian says the next step is obvious.

“Unsurprisingly, there is a groundswell now of people performing major surgery on one another.”

“It’s exciting!”

And he says that the Doctors who say it’s dangerous are just protecting their cosy patch.

One of the biggest online interweb crowdsourcing meccadomes for citizen surgery is citizensurgery.com, which includes instructional videos, and a whole bunch of people scheduling surgery in a bottom-up, peer-to-peer way that Internet guru Jim O’Reilly has christened “Surgery 2.0″.

I logged on for the first time yesterday, and already a Bay Area refrigeration mechanic has offered to burn off some unsightly warts I picked up using his easy access to liquid nitrogen. In exchange, I’ll whipping out his adenoids in just two weeks, courtesy of five-minute instructional video on citizensurgery.com

But here’s one for the GuruGroupMind: have you performed or received any of these exciting, innovative, bottom-up surgical prcedures?