Poison Control Is Also Important For Getting Treatment For A Venomous Snake Bite! Because They're So

Poison control is also important for getting treatment for a venomous snake bite! Because they're so uncommon in the US, many doctors are not comfortable using antivenins or will attempt to treat bites with outdated, unsafe techniques. So, if you get bit by something venomous, the best thing to do is call poison control while you are en route to the hospital, and they can actually contact the ER doctor and give guidance on the appropriate treatments, dosage of antivenin, etc AND let you know where the nearest hospital or zoo that has a stock of the correct antivenin is.

Life-changing OCD hack is learning that you can literally call poison control to check if you fucked up and took medications wrong in a way that could kill you instead of having a panic attack while reading reddit and quora threads for an hour. They won't even be mad at you. Like obviously don't do it every day or something but genuinely you can do this if you need to