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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Sawbones: Sea Moss

Episode Date: April 9, 2024

Another day, another fad superfood on social media! Sea moss, or carrageenan or Irish moss, has historically been used for ulcers and sore throats, bu...

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Sawbones: Gamer Pills

Episode Date: March 28, 2024

If you want to Get Good at video games quickly, are there any magic pills you can take? Well, there are people trying to sell them to you. Justin and...

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Sawbones: Bad Bugs

Episode Date: March 12, 2024

There are many ways people get sick, but sometimes diseases are carried to people by insects. Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about the top ten "bad bugs"...

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Sawbones: IVF

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

Started in the 1930s by scientist Dr. Miriam Menkin, in vitro fertilization is a medical procedure to help with fertility that took until the 1970s to...

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Sawbones: Knock Knock Hi

Episode Date: February 27, 2024

Justin and Dr. Sydnee are joined by parallel-universe versions of themselves, The Glaucomfleckens! The two doctor-spouse duos talk about Will and Kris...

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Sawbones: Tongue Ties

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

A tongue tie is not just a turn of phrase, it's a medical condition in which the frenulum under your tongue is too thick and restricts your lingual mo...

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Sawbones: Aquatofana

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

Normally Sawbones talks about medical cures, whether real or fake, but today Dr. Sydnee and Justin are diving into the opposite. There was a time when...

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Sawbones: Gallstones

Episode Date: January 30, 2024

Do you even know where your gallbladder is? Maybe it's not so surprising that millions of Americans don't know they have a gastrointestinal disorder c...

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Sawbones: Dr. Scholl's

Episode Date: January 23, 2024

In a continuation from last week, Dr. Sydnee and Justin are focusing on a particular Doctor Brand: Dr Scholl's. Who was Dr. Scholl, what was his medic...

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Sawbones: Doctor Brands

Episode Date: January 16, 2024

A lot of brands name themselves "doctor" – but how many of them are named after actual medical doctors? Justin takes the wheel with a little quiz for...

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Sawbones: Home Alone 2

Episode Date: December 19, 2023

What would really happen to someone stuck in all of Kevin McCallister's traps? Dr. Sydnee and Justin return to discuss the even more outrageous and ev...

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Sawbones: Pepto Bismol

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

Many of us know all the catchy jingle that lists all the things that Pepto Bismol is supposed to be good for. However, that ubiquitous pink medicine i...

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Sawbones: Dr. Willard Bliss

Episode Date: November 21, 2023

It was probably the destiny of Dr. Doctor Willard Bliss to become a medical professional, although his career was a real rollercoaster of beliefs and...