> I'm curious... why is it that so much antivenin was required? If that much is needed, why do hospitals only stock six vials apiece? Because odds are they won

> I'm curious... why is it that so much antivenin was required? If that much is needed, why do hospitals only stock six vials apiece? Because odds are they won't need it. They stock to buy time until they can get enough for a single patient. To put it another way, if there's an average of one patient/year in an area with 10 hospitals, what's the right amount for each hospital to stock? Remember - they have lots of other things that they could stock with comparable odds.