{"id":27911,"date":"2012-05-14T23:27:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T05:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/if-you-prick-us-do-we-not-say-ouch.html"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T05:27:04","slug":"if-you-prick-us-do-we-not-say-ouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/if-you-prick-us-do-we-not-say-ouch.html","title":{"rendered":"If you prick us, do we not say, &quot;OUCH!&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two points:<\/p>\n<p>1. I have literally <i>no choice<\/i> but to look away prior to an injection.  That&#39;s just the way I roll (up into a little ball in terror of needles).<\/p>\n<p>2. Lying about how painful something is going to be might provide a minor reduction in perceived pain. Or it might make the pain involved more of a surprise and add a sense of betrayal to the whole process. (Just ask my daughter.)<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2012-05\/ehs-tap051412.php'>To avoid pain during an injection, look away<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHealth professionals commonly say, &quot;Don&#39;t look and it won&#39;t hurt&quot; before administering an injection, but is there any scientific basis for the advice?  A group of German investigators has found that, &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/aWsfXgtfbK5' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two points: 1. I have literally no choice but to look away prior to an injection. That&#39;s just the way I roll (up into a little ball in terror of needles). 2. Lying about how painful something is going to be might provide a minor reduction in perceived pain. Or it might make the pain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/if-you-prick-us-do-we-not-say-ouch.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you prick us, do we not say, &quot;OUCH!&quot;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41554,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/the-american-way-of-death-execution-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":27911,"position":0},"title":"The American Way of Death (Execution Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-14 8:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Even if one leaves aside the documented flakiness of the judicial system in accurately identifying who truly deserves to die ...... it is unconscionable that such government-performed\u00a0killing on behalf of the citizenry should be anything less than quick, painless, and final.If it's okay for someone to suffer strangulation for half\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":37895,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/26\/movie-review-mission-impossible-2-2000.html","url_meta":{"origin":27911,"position":1},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Mission: Impossible 2&quot; (2000)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Jun-13 10:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Tom Cruise leads a charmed life, in that his career didn't utterly tank after this dreadfully mediocre outing, with its miscast John Woo direction, awful melodrama, and ... pretty everything.If you like gun-fu, then there's some nice bits here. 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