Intramuscular injection is one of the common procedures done with any patients. Even patients feel when the doctor gives the injection, then only they recognise the doctor and because of this false understanding about doctors, whoever is giving the injection is considered as a doctor in most of the rural householding of India and that is the reason more quacks thrive in India. One important observation I have made is, whenever a patient has advised injection, the patient asks whether the person can stand.
Remembering my first Prof of medicine, a great teacher par excellence, in 1974, when I entered my first clinical year, told that "do not give an injection to the patient by standing and only sitting or lying should be ensured before giving injection" on the first class itself. This is the golden rule I follow for the past 40 years and I have not come across any injection-related…
