The pick through the hand stuff took up too much airtime and emphasis on the show. It looks pretty shocking and cool, but you can youtube people doing it at home. The doctor on the show was lying too, as there is a point between your index and middle fingers on your hand where there's very limited nerve endings, and you can stick a thin needle through while feeling it but with very little pain, and the elasticity of the skin there will cause the small wound to close up without bleeding. So it really wasn't much of a trick, but just a demonstration of human anatomy/science.
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