Never heard of that one. Going to have to watch Wings of Hope when I get a chance, as I'm a big Herzog fan anyway.

For a brief second, I kind of think to myself, 'Yeh I could survive in the jungle, I've seen Bear Grylls and Ray Mears."
Yeh... nope, I'm crying dead mess in less than a day...

We do something similar when maggots get into the sheep's wool. It's pretty disgusting, and obviously on yourself it'd be a lot different, but there's also a strong sense of better out than in.

That said, I'm pretty comfortable in the knowledge that I'm dead very fast in a scenario even remotely like that.

On a similar vein, this is a good book, and quite a famous mountaineering exploit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchi...29?wprov=sfla1

British climber in Peru breaks his leg and gets frostbite, *then* falls down a cravasse when his partner has to cut their rope, leaves him for dead. Dude wakes up and crawls/hops his way out over the course of multiple days, knowing that there's a real chance the team packs up and leaves without him.

Now I am confused.

In Gladiator, the maggots clean the wound.

Doctors still use maggots on wounds today, but this only works with certain kinds of species. You want the kind that only eats dead flesh. The therapy only works on certain kinds of wounds:

(fair warning, gross pictures)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy

Now you tell me!

We have maggots in the pharmacy but i can't ever remember them getting used. Leeches get used like monthly.

I'm not going to look up medical leech therapy. I've done enough puking for one day.

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How long do unused maggots last?

No idea. I'm not at all responsible for their care.

The leeches get killed after they do their thing by being thrown in alcohol which causes them to puke up all the blood and die writhing in apparent agony.

ugh... what do people use these leeches for?

The freaky part is that you'd have to tell a patient that the leeches are contraindicated with certain medications. Stay away from broccoli, I guess.

You use them when you have a surgical flap or re-attached ear or something where blood would clot and kill the tissue. The leeches keep the blood flowing to the area and your flap alive.

Don't know what you're talking about with contraindicated medications or broccoli.

Broccoli is high in Vitamin K, a coagulant. Maybe good or bad for this stuff, idk. It's just something I find interesting, but if medication wouldn't matter all, then I learned something new today.

Weird. I was always under the impression that leaches just tried to stick you with the bar tab.

Yessss! Really good ep, hope they start becoming more regular again.

I'm trying to figure out how to ask the following without sounding snarky. I'm genuinely curious.

You keep live maggots in your pharmacy to prescribe to patients, but you've never seen them prescribed?

Do you work in a highly specialized pharmacy, or do most (all) pharmacies keep live maggots?

How are they stored?

If you're not responsible for their care, who is?

Can you get that person to create an "ask me anything" thread?

I don’t have to get my live maggots at the pharmacy anymore. Amazon ftw

Nah, it wouldn't matter at all. The leeches' anticoagulant doesn't work by being a vitamin K antagonist like warfarin.

1) I don't know if we actually have maggots. I presume we do. Somewhere. Or maybe they are something you order from cardinal health when you need them. I'll be back to update if I ever encounter an order for maggots. I'll answer the rest of the questions wrt leeches.

2) I work in a hospital pharmacy for the most prestigious hospital in the world. You're not gonna get leech therapy from an outpatient pharmacy. It's not something you do at home. I'm not sure if other hospitals have leeches. I assume they do as needing them is not that rare.

3) Leeches are stored in a really big glass jar. They're mostly laying around the bottom on top of each other in a 3-4 leech thick layer. They're pretty chill and lazy looking.

4) I assume one of the purchasing people. A big operation like this has a half-dozen people that order drugs and stuff (we get 3 pallets/day delivered to even my smaller pharmacy. Our sister hospital is like 4x bigger) and get everything where it's supposed to go on the shelves. When we need stuff we generally assume it's gonna be where it is supposed to be because those people take care of everything and are awesome at their jobs.

OMG, this is a real thing you can purchase on Amazon.

Not the medical-grade stuff, but still.

Until they become flies.

Imo the last short segment at the end of the show was GOAT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(alligator)

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isab...ft?wprov=sfla1

Unsolved theft of a series of classical art works with loads of ties to the Boston underworld, but no conclusive evidence. Looks like at least one of the guards was dodgy, although:

Sick burn.

I like the Vermeer, also the Rembrandt, but a couple of the others I wouldn't have bothered with.

I like the Flink a lot

^ it’s an interesting case. Check out the Last Seen podcast if you’re interested in it.

Didn’t Picasso help steal the Mona Lisa?