Australian hospital staff plead with bite victims to stop bringing snakes to emergency departments
Snake bite victims are endangering medical staff by bringing the reptiles with them to hospital, doctors say.
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 will help with identification and treatment.
In one case earlier this month, emergency staff at Bundaberg Hospital, four hours north of Brisbane, were handed a plastic food container with a small [highly venomous] eastern brown snake inside peering back at them.
The incident has prompted the hospital's director of emergency medicine, Adam Michael, to warn patients to leave snakes alone.
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