26 April 2023

Bad shot


An article about influenza vaccination this past week in The Telegraph carried this image - presumably standard stock material - of a patient receiving an injection from a nurse.

The nurse/model's finger positions indicate that this is an injection, not a phlebotomy, but the needle's position in the antecubital fossa is the location for drawing blood from a large vein.  Vaccine and medication injections are typically injected into major muscle groups like the deltoid.

To anyone with a medical background (or a modicum of experience with medical care) this image should be totally cringeworthy.

Reposted from 2016 to add the "soldering" stock photo mentioned by Aleksejs in the comments...


Doubly bad because not only does she have her fingers on the heating element, but perhaps less obviously she is soldering the wrong side of the circuit board.

13 comments:

  1. Definitely cringe-worthy!

    I have never seen someone mainlining insulin!!!
    {tongue firmly planted in cheek

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  2. Speaking of cringe-worthy...
    Have you seen stock photos of soldering?
    http://www.boredpanda.com/soldering-iron-stock-image-fails/

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  3. It's definitely not just soldering and injecting :)
    http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2016/04/08/deepfryer-cow-cow-wahoo-zipzang
    This, and the comments :)

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  4. Pedants keep the world from dissolving.
    Keep it up.
    Seriously.

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  5. Even more cringe-worthy-there does not appear to be a needle attached to the syringe. At least that explains why the "nurse" didn't bother to wear gloves.

    In fact it looks suspiciously like a syringe full of the pink liquid oral antibiotic I recently gave to my cat.

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  6. Skimping on elementary research. Thing is, people DO rely on this sort of image to get their medical information. Just pay a poor nursing student to do it realistically, they could use the cash.

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  7. I laugh at 'homeowner painting' photographs. Anyone who has ever painted anything can spot all the faked things in the picture.

    Rule of thumb: Don't fake, when you can.

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  8. If you look at a much higher resolution version of this image, you can clearly see there is no needle in the syringe, so there is no reason cringe. Here is a much larger image: http://imsclinic.com/tyfoon/site/fckeditor/about.jpg

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  9. I used to love this image every time I passed it because one of the players is very clearly holding his hand of hwatu cards the wrong way round.

    rb.gy/qq1y9

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  10. I was a combat medic (91B) in the army 50+ years ago, so I have some familiarity with using a syringe, though not in a clinical setting. I agree with previous commenters that there is no needle in that syringe.

    I also have some experience with soldering. Not only does the woman using the tool have her fingers too close to the heating element, but she is not using a heat sink. That is a good way to destroy the integrity of the electronic components in a circuit.

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  11. I don't think that woman can hold on to a hot iron in that manner long enough to need a heat sink.
    xoxoxoBruce

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    1. Typical patriarchy, telling women which thermodynamic laws they can or can't violate.

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  12. I almost did something like that the other day with my soldering iron. I needed a free hand to hold what I was soldering and was about to grab the iron with my teeth / lips. I stopped myself.

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