Can doctors carry their instruments on a plane?

[HoboCommander]

Say you are a surgeon and want to carry your first aid kit and scapal blades, and some other medical/surgical instruments and some painkillers with you on the airplane. Say you want to treat your family who lives in a 3rd world country in the middle of nowhere. Is it allowed?

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[BlackSails]

Say you are a surgeon and want to carry your first aid kit and scapal blades, and some other medical/surgical instruments and some painkillers with you on the airplane. Say you want to treat your family who lives in a 3rd world country in the middle of nowhere. Is it allowed?

Sure, in your checked luggage.

 

[kronickm]

Sure, in your checked luggage.

You mean I can't carry my demerol on the plane?

 

[mjl1717]

You mean I can't carry my demerol on the plane?

I doubt that they say no to presciption meds

 

[DeadCactus]

Smuggle it in your [EDIT] to be safe.

 

[bbkdh]

Prescription medications are fine. I once had a knee hammer in my bag. the security quizzed me as to what it was and checked if it was sharp and all that....

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Say you are a surgeon and want to carry your first aid kit and scapal blades, and some other medical/surgical instruments and some painkillers with you on the airplane. Say you want to treat your family who lives in a 3rd world country in the middle of nowhere. Is it allowed?

The bigger, more obvious question is why you'd keep your family in a 3rd world country? I mean, if I was a whiz with the "scapal", I'd prolly set my family up somewhere nice, not Haiti.

YMMV.

 

[HoboCommander]

The bigger, more obvious question is why you'd keep your family in a 3rd world country? I mean, if I was a whiz with the "scapal", I'd prolly set my family up somewhere nice, not Haiti.

YMMV.

The immigration people don't allow them to come to America. I have a huge extended family of about 50 relatives living in a poor remote area in China. When I become a surgeon I will be a superdoctor!

 

[howelljolly]

The immigration people don't allow them to come to America. I have a huge extended family of about 50 relatives living in a poor remote area in China. When I become a surgeon I will be a superdoctor!

You should become a Family Practitioner... unless your entire extended family only suffers from appendicitis. Anyway, assuming you will check everything in (don't try carrying a scalpel onto a plane), You can carry any equipment you can get your hands on. However, you cant truck a pharmacy with you. Besides that, you cant legally acquire your own pharmacy. You can only have meds that are prescribed to YOU, even if you're a doctor.

I hate to be a kill-joy, but I really cant imagine what good you would be able to do with a first aid kit, some surgical instruments, and a bottle of Advil.

 

[njbmd]

Say you are a surgeon and want to carry your first aid kit and scapal blades, and some other medical/surgical instruments and some painkillers with you on the airplane. Say you want to treat your family who lives in a 3rd world country in the middle of nowhere. Is it allowed?

Having done plenty of overseas medical/surgical missions, I find that DHL shipping works well. None of us had to carry instruments on a plane and found that all of our equipment arrived well.

 

[BlackSails]

You can only have meds that are prescribed to YOU, even if you're a doctor.

How do medical missions work then?

 

[Depakote]

How do medical missions work then?

I'm pretty sure we trucked what would constitute a small pharmacy with us when I went to Haiti on my mission trip. Nothing too exotic or crazy, but definitely a few antimalarials, antibiotics and other meds that you wouldn't get OTC.

Don't think we had a problem with customs, either.

 

[edmadison]

So here's my question, I've been using venom for experimental therapy for neuromuscular conditions. Can I take my Snakes on a Plane?

Ed

 

[MSKalltheway]

So here's my question, I've been using venom for experimental therapy for neuromuscular conditions. Can I take my Snakes on a Plane?

[SIZE=-1]Not unless you have a problem with someone breaking out the phrase, "I'm tired of these motha ****ing snakes on this motha ****ing plane!!!!"[/SIZE]