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You ever try to get blood out in a hurry?
I mean, obviously this is the internet and nothing is real, but it's not impossible that they still had some blood on them in the frenzy to get to the hospital.
I don't know how hospitals work in the US (assuming that OP is a US citizen, because that's what we do on the internet), but where I come from, determining the cause of an injury is very important to decide on an effective treatment. Bites in particular are very nasty and can lead to a lot of scary complications (including human bites!).
There's no way in hell the nurse just said "yeah ok got it fam" and went along with her day like it wasn't important.
And maybe I'm too jaded, but I read "we also got engaged" and my mind automatically added "and everyone clapped" at the end of the sentence lol
I feel like there's not much hygiene difference between a human bite and a rat. They're probably both equally bad
Probably different types of infections you can get from that.
And all treated with broad spectrum antibiotics so...
We like to use the narrowest spectrum antibiotics possible to limit side effects and breeding resistance. Also, the really broad spectrum ones are expensive.
Sure we do, bro.
I've been in clinical rotations and my attending physicians have been very clear about antibiotic use and there is a lot of clinical evidence and guidance for minimizing broad spectrum use.
Everyone knows you get a culture for an animal bite and then write a prescription for the single species of bacteria infecting the wound. It's just procedure! Same for tick bites, definitely not just writing out amoxicillin and calling it a day, gotta wait two weeks and send in some blood work first to give the Lyme disease time to settle in and show up nice and clean.
Empiric treatment is not the broadest spectrum possible. Yes, they will put someone on Augmentin for a human bite, but that's very different from putting someone on IV vancomycin or meropenem. The augmentin will probably cover anything in that bite, but if the culture comes back showing resistance, then you switch to something else.
Oh, wow, someone exaggerated a situation in an internet comment.
Their username is literally medgremlin, I'm 99% certain they know about at least some fields of medical treatment.
Correct. I'm a third year medical student on my clinical rotations right now, and I worked in the medical field for 4 years before starting med school.