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Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the EM Clerkship Podcast. My name is Maddie Watts.

Today, we'll be talking about snakes, spiders, and other things that bite, buzz, and sting.

It's going to be a fun episode.

Depending on where you live, whether in the United States or abroad,

your exposure to some of these things might be really common,

or it might be once in a career.

And interestingly, I was going to make a joke in the intro about listeners,

maybe you're from Florida or Louisiana, you know, swamp lands, maybe Arizona in the intro about listeners, maybe you're from Florida or Louisiana, you know,

swamp lands, maybe Arizona in the desert, guessing that they would probably have seen a lot

more of this than I had. However, I actually looked up the most snake bites per capita in the U.S.

Do you want to guess which state it is? It's actually North Carolina, which is where I live

and practice and where I did residency. I was quite surprised. I mean, I have seen a fair number of

snake bites, but it turns out that maybe I've actually seen more than most. Anyways, I am still not

an expert on this topic, and I had to do a lot of research for this case.

So if you are a snake aficionado or a future toxicology fellow, then you probably still know more about this than I do.

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