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Originally Posted by Gurkha
I wouldn't worry about it, they are top notch, they need to literally walk on fire and hell to qualify and usually do quite well, they have been doing so since he 60s in UK, US and other parts of the earth. Snakebite treatment is a different issue and has nothing to do with competence of doctors, its more of a administration priority issue. Depending on the success of most Indian doctors in US, its a surefire indicator of their competence. Of course there are exceptions, but that goes for US trained doctors as well and in good numbers so its a toss up.
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Yep...I wouldn't go picking on Indian doctors either...I know of a few American docs that need to have their license yanked...
BTW, I'd be willing to bet that there are quite a few more varieties of deadly snakes in India vs. the US...and when some snake is chomping on your lower regions, identifing the type of snake USUALLY isn't very high on the priority scale...it's probably more like...
HOLY F*C*!!!
A DAMN SNAKE IS EATING ME ALIVE!!!
I'M GOING TO DIE!!!
Personal experience...I grabbed ahold of a garter snake a little too far back from its head...he wheeled around a chomped down on my finger...first off, I knew it was a garter snake...non-venomous...but that little "spin & nip" caused me to fling that little bas***d about a block away...and I really didn't care to see if he landed OK.
Now, if you're out in the bush and SOMETHING bites your ankle, leg or foot...I hardly think for one moment you're going to bend down, grab it safely and study it for the sake of determining its gender and makeup DNA-wise...you're going stark raving nuts trying to get the hell out of its grasp/bite/whatever...and putting as much distance between it and you...all the while, driving the venon deeper into the tissue and into your system...
Yep, you're snake-bait at that point...
I guess in the US you have a better chance of surviving due to the fact that whatever we have as poisonous snakes seem to be isolated in their own areas and not all concentrated into one, they seem to stick to their own type of terrain features that they're comfortable in and usually, there's enough medical knowledge easily available in the US to help out a victim should you run into the situation that readily identifing the type of snake might be difficult.
Yep, the US might beat India as the best place to get bit, treated and be able to survive...
I'll just leave the flip-flops at home and put on the hikers and long pants when I head into the woods...it's the damn deer-ticks that have me doing the heebee-jeebee dancing...
(Although, I don't mind having a good, ole "tick-check" with the lady when I get home...
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