Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Join Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy for a tour of all the dumb, bad, gross, weird and wrong ways we've tried to fix people.

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Dr. Joycelyn Elders

Episode Date: July 31, 2020

Dr. Joycelyn Elders is an American hero who went from a sharecropper's daughter to the first black Surgeon General of the United States. This is the s...

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Operation Warp Speed

Episode Date: July 24, 2020

Yes friends, that's the actual name of the U.S. government's race to creation a coronavirus vaccine. It's either radical or a huge embarrassment, depe...

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Sawbones: Amnesia

Episode Date: July 18, 2020

In what is perhaps the first and only example of the Fast and Furious franchise inspiring an episode of Sawbones, we're diving into amnesia. We'll see...

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Health Media Literacy

Episode Date: July 13, 2020

We're being inundated by medical news in the face of COVID-19, but how is the layman supposed to make sense of all it? How can you tell a trustworthy...

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Sawbones: The Cholera Riots

Episode Date: May 22, 2020

Fear that the government and doctors were allied in a grand conspiracy to oppress the populace was at a fever pitch. The people took to the streets to...

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Sawbones: COVID-19 Q&A

Episode Date: May 17, 2020

It should come as no surprise that the Sawbones inbox has been chockablock with questions about the ongoing ... unpleasantness. This week, we're tryin...

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Sawbones: Cabin Fever

Episode Date: May 8, 2020

Did you know that cabin fever isn't just the cooped-up funk we all find ourselves in? It's a real actual disease called typhus -- or at least, it used...

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Sawbones: Hydroxychloroquine

Episode Date: April 12, 2020

There are some pushing hydroxychloroquine as a miracle treatment for COVID-19 in a way that should seem familiar (and a little scary) to long-time Saw...

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Sawbones: Ignaz Semmelweis

Episode Date: April 3, 2020

This week on Sawbones, it's the fascinating, inspiring and infuriating story of Ignaz Semmelweis. You'll learn how he discovered why it was so importa...

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Sawbones: Masks

Episode Date: March 30, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak has recently pushed masks and other protective equipment into the forefront of the global conversation, especially as a shortage...

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Sawbones: Coronavirus Part 2

Episode Date: March 22, 2020

Surprise! This week our medical history podcast is about the biggest medical history event in any of our lifetimes. Let's talk about home testing! Soc...