Sounds like snake bite victims are overestimating the knowledge and competence of hospital staff.
Or worse, their preference for using clinical signs, blood tests, and snake venom detection kits ("which we have at the hospital,” Michael said) is economically motivated. They wouldn't get paid for just knowing the type of snake.
This is strange to me. In the USA, where I group up in a rural area with plenty of poisonous snakes and spiders- shit that could kill a child with one bite. It was a sort of rule that if you got bit by something you thought was poisonous, try to capture the thing that bit you alive and intact and bring it to the hospital with you.
This eliminates the need for screening your blood for a huge variety of toxins. They can look at the spider in the jar, say "Oh yeah, that's a brown recluse, good thing you came here. Nurse, go get the antidote, please."
I knew a farmer who got bit by a poisonous snake. He killed it immediately after being bitten by stomping the shit out of it. He drove himself to the hospital, his leg swelling like a balloon, dead snake in the passenger's seat. I imagine him stumbling into the ER waving the snake around, splattering its blood everywhere. "Halp me, I've been bit!" Pretty funny to imagine...
Now picture this, but with like a hundred migrants from Africa and the middle east. They have dozens of snakes with them in the ER waiting room. Lmao
[ - ] iSnark 1 point 1 weekApr 23, 2024 08:12:31 ago (+1/-0)
Saw an interesting video yesterday, the head was cut off a snake, and the snake lived quite a while, acting as if nothing was amiss. It was a poisonous snake, the commentator said that if the snake bit a person, the person could die. Weird!
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Or worse, their preference for using clinical signs, blood tests, and snake venom detection kits ("which we have at the hospital,” Michael said) is economically motivated. They wouldn't get paid for just knowing the type of snake.
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This eliminates the need for screening your blood for a huge variety of toxins. They can look at the spider in the jar, say "Oh yeah, that's a brown recluse, good thing you came here. Nurse, go get the antidote, please."
I knew a farmer who got bit by a poisonous snake. He killed it immediately after being bitten by stomping the shit out of it. He drove himself to the hospital, his leg swelling like a balloon, dead snake in the passenger's seat. I imagine him stumbling into the ER waving the snake around, splattering its blood everywhere. "Halp me, I've been bit!" Pretty funny to imagine...
Now picture this, but with like a hundred migrants from Africa and the middle east. They have dozens of snakes with them in the ER waiting room. Lmao
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