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Letter: Letters: Wrong side

Published 1 August 1992

From MARGARET CURTIS

My husband, having been painstakingly taught by me on how to locate
the radial pulse in the wrist, was more astute than me in recognising that
the illustration on the opening spread of ‘The Dutch way of death’ (20 June)
was incorrect.

‘Hey’, he said, with the enthusiasm of new-found knowledge, ‘They’re
feeling for the pulse on the wrong side of the wrist.’

He was right.

Margaret Curtis Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Issue no. 1832 published 1 August 1992

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