Word: hansons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor or nurse who tries to spare a patient pain by giving an intramuscular injection as fast as possible is making a mistake. The results of a quick stab' with a hypodermic needle, says Ohio Pathologist Daniel J. Hanson, may be worse than the condition that the injection is supposed to cure...
Nobody knows how many patients suffer severe reactions to injections, but Dr. Hanson is sure that there are many more than doctors report. He is not concerned with simple soreness, but with abscesses and cysts, severe scarring, lingering pain, injection directly into an artery, bone inflammation, and-most serious of all-damage to a major nerve, with consequent paralysis. One trouble, says Dr. Hanson in the magazine GP, published...
American Academy of General Practice, is that doctors and nurses are not given sufficient training in how and where to use the needle. And the importance of a safe technique has grown with the popularity of injections of all kinds. It is not unusual, Dr. Hanson notes, for a patient to get from six to twelve injections in a single day after an operation...
...answer to the letter from Betty Hanson [Oct. 12], Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible only when he speaks to us in his capacity as head of the church in regard to matters of faith and morals...
Audiences everywhere were impressed by the orchestra's youth and skill. Even in Germany, musicians confessed that there is no student orchestra with the Eastman's professional polish. "It got to the point," says Hanson, "where if we didn't have five or six encores and a standing ovation, the students thought the concert was a failure." Nowhere was the Eastman a bigger hit than behind the Iron Curtain. In Lvov, Russia, the theater management had to turn off the lights before the audience stopped demanding encores. And in Moscow, the audience shouted "March, march, American march...