You wouldn't necessarily need a couple seconds, just a few animation frames or milliseconds should do the job.
If you go the etimer route, this
should work. State 44 is an intermediate state that just does a camshake for 500 milliseconds before resuming your script at state 5. You could adjust the timer to taste.
:state=25,frameatend=95:plrdistwithin=80:etimerstart,plraddhealth=-10,plrsound=audiobank\thestoryteller01\people\malehurt01.wav,state=44
:state=44:camshake=10
:state=44,etimergreater=500:state=5
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