Comments on: Snake, #4 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html Ramblings of an Emergency Physician in Texas Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:48:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3526 GruntDoc Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:05:16 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3526 <strong>Can a woman with children make it though Medical School?</strong> A little while back this email hit the inbox: ...I am looking for advice from experienced Doctors. I am hoping you can answer a quick question for me. In your opinion, is it impossible to successfully get through Medical school,... Can a woman with children make it though Medical School?

A little while back this email hit the inbox: …I am looking for advice from experienced Doctors. I am hoping you can answer a quick question for me. In your opinion, is it impossible to successfully get through Medical school,…

]]> By: Pk http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3525 Pk Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:53:20 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3525 Doc, you might wanna consider movin back nearer to God's country! Er by Yosemite ...ok, so Fresno isn't God's country, but Yosemite is! yea, I know they have snakes there too ...but they tend to stay out of the houses! (still homesick in Oklahoma) Doc, you might wanna consider movin back nearer to God’s country! Er by Yosemite …ok, so Fresno isn’t God’s country, but Yosemite is! yea, I know they have snakes there too …but they tend to stay out of the houses!

(still homesick in Oklahoma)

]]> By: TheNewGuy http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3524 TheNewGuy Fri, 10 Mar 2006 19:59:06 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3524 My patients bring me snakes... usually with a "this is what bit me" chief complaint. It's actually quite helpful. Sometimes, however, the snakes they bring are very much alive. A few years back we had a big ole' boy bring in a five gallon bucket... FILLED to the top with a very large, very angry, and very live eastern diamondback. He opened the lid, and the snake got out... one of our techs (an icewater-in-the-veins veteran marine) swept it outside with a broom. Thankfully, the snakes they bring in are usually dead... we haven't had a live one in quite a while. My patients bring me snakes… usually with a “this is what bit me” chief complaint. It’s actually quite helpful.

Sometimes, however, the snakes they bring are very much alive. A few years back we had a big ole’ boy bring in a five gallon bucket… FILLED to the top with a very large, very angry, and very live eastern diamondback. He opened the lid, and the snake got out… one of our techs (an icewater-in-the-veins veteran marine) swept it outside with a broom.

Thankfully, the snakes they bring in are usually dead… we haven’t had a live one in quite a while.

]]> By: Kim http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3523 Kim Fri, 10 Mar 2006 05:25:19 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3523 I don't get snakes but I get cute little lizards. Usually I find them because a cat has cornered it. I don't mind lizards. And I don't mind snakes, unless they are rattlers and then I'd be on the phone to Animal Control. We have a ton of garden spiders every year. Last year they were named variations of "Niblet"as in "Itty bitty Niblet" "Giant Niblet" and "Mama Niblet". My daughter used to tease them by putting a tiny piece of leaf in the web and they would think it was food and come over and throw it out. I made her stop. There will be no spider teasing at my house! I don’t get snakes but I get cute little lizards. Usually I find them because a cat has cornered it. I don’t mind lizards. And I don’t mind snakes, unless they are rattlers and then I’d be on the phone to Animal Control.

We have a ton of garden spiders every year. Last year they were named variations of “Niblet”as in “Itty bitty Niblet” “Giant Niblet” and “Mama Niblet”. My daughter used to tease them by putting a tiny piece of leaf in the web and they would think it was food and come over and throw it out. I made her stop.

There will be no spider teasing at my house!

]]> By: wil http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3522 wil Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:11:37 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3522 "(the screen has a big gap at the bottom, and is how it probably got in)" Time to fix the screen door, me bucko. “(the screen has a big gap at the bottom, and is how it probably got in)”

Time to fix the screen door, me bucko.

]]> By: GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3521 GruntDoc Wed, 08 Mar 2006 22:07:45 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3521 I live a bit into the boonies. I live a bit into the boonies.

]]> By: Anonymous http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3520 Anonymous Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:57:06 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3520 I live in Forth Worth also and I never have had a snake in my house so far in the 24 years I have lived here. You must have a pretty drafty home :-) I live in Forth Worth also and I never have had a snake in my house so far in the 24 years I have lived here. You must have a pretty drafty home :-)

]]> By: GruntDoc http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3519 GruntDoc Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:28:16 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3519 I guess Reader's Digest might be interested...nah. My wife not only loves me, she took care of snake #4 while I was at work! I found out about it after the fact. And, thanks for that! We don't really know how this one got in, so we're going to be vigilant for a while. I guess Reader’s Digest might be interested…nah.

My wife not only loves me, she took care of snake #4 while I was at work! I found out about it after the fact.

And, thanks for that! We don’t really know how this one got in, so we’re going to be vigilant for a while.

]]> By: Anonymous http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3518 Anonymous Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:09:23 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3518 That little snake had to come from a big one. What is that one at, I wonder? That little snake had to come from a big one. What is that one at, I wonder?

]]> By: Cathy http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html/comment-page-1#comment-3517 Cathy Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:06:42 +0000 http://gruntdoc.com/2006/03/snake-4.html#comment-3517 Grunt Doc, I remembered your story from 2004..I have repeated it many times to friends and family members. Expecially my brother and SIL that live in Fla. and have killed 3 rattlers already. Your wife must be really brave or totally in "lovvvveeee" with you. Don't they kind of freak her out? I have never been that in love that I could live with snakes! yuck! Grunt Doc, I remembered your story from 2004..I have repeated it many times to friends and family members. Expecially my brother and SIL that live in Fla. and have killed 3 rattlers already.

Your wife must be really brave or totally in “lovvvveeee” with you. Don’t they kind of freak her out? I have never been that in love that I could live with snakes! yuck!

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