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This relates a personal experience of nerve injury to the arm caused by routine drawing of blood for testing. 
 
After more than a year of pain and disability in the arm, the author finally found a doctor who was familiar with the risk and surgery was performed. 
 
Some disability remains, and the author cautions that if you suspect a blood draw has gone wrong, have the technician stop immediately and insist upon medical help. 
 
Nerve injuries are known to happen from blood donations, but can also happen when blood is only drawn for testing.

'A Little Sting' Can Become a Debilitating Injury

New York Times - 5/29/2006 10:32 PM

There are no studies showing how often patients are hurt during routine blood draws, but a 1996 study of blood donors (a larger needle is used in blood donation than in routine venipuncture) found that 1 in 6,300 donors suffered a nerve injury.
 
Phlebotomy-related injuries have become common enough in recent years that there are now specialists who make a living teaching health care providers how to avoid lawsuits provoked by the procedure.
 
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