"I think it's really important that spider bites be understood because there's so many urban legends about, you know, you get a spiderbite, your limb falls off and you die, " Seger said.
On Friday, CNN's Elizabeth Cohen spoke to Dr. Donna Seger who routinely treats spider-bite victims at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee.
Seger stressed that, on the whole, patients with spider bites recover fine if they follow medical instructions and keep their bite areas clean so that a scab can form and fall off.