AUSTRALIAN EMERGENCY ROOMS: LEAVE YOUR SNAKES AT HOME

Emergency rooms in Australia are asking snakebite victims to NOT bring the snake that bit them to the ER. In Queensland’s Wide Bay region, doctors have come face to face with some of the world’s most venomous snakes captured by patients believing it’ll help with identification and treatment. In one case earlier this month, emergency staff at Bundaberg Hospital were handed a plastic food container with an extremely venomous eastern brown snake inside peering back at them. Doctors say they are not trained to identify snakes, and medical staff did not need to see the snake to know how to treat the patient.
* And this goes double for crocodile bites.
* If you want a doctor to see the snake, go get yourself treated by a veterinarian.
* “Come on! We’ve got to get you to the emergency room!” “Wait – I can’t decide between Tupperware or Rubbermaid.”
* These ERs could have a pretty good side hustle going if they’d open up a taxidermy service.