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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Dropsy

Episode Date: January 19, 2021

It's a true shame that the medical condition with perhaps the most adorable name, dropsy, doesn't really exists. Well, it exists but ... you know what...

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COVID-19: The Final Mile

Episode Date: January 5, 2021

OK, so the COVID-19 vaccine is here, basically, kind of, but how do you get it? How does your Nonnee get it? How will anybody get it? The answers are...

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Sawbones: Clinical Trials

Episode Date: December 4, 2020

Dr. Sydnee and Justin have turned themselves into lab rats as they join a COVID-19 vaccine trial. But how did humanity discover the practices and poli...

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Hypodermic Needles

Episode Date: November 13, 2020

With news that a COVID-19 vaccine may be on the horizon and flu shot season in full swing, we take things back to basics with a history of the hypoder...

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Angel's Glow

Episode Date: November 8, 2020

On a chilly, rainy Civil War battlefield in Tennessee, soldiers started noticing something strange: Some of their wounds had begun ... glowing. Strang...

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A Health Care Voter's Guide

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

If, by some set of unexplainable circumstances, you are still an undecided voter in the U.S. we've prepared something special for you in anticipation...

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Herd Immunity

Episode Date: October 23, 2020

There's been a lot of discussion about herd immunity in the face of COVID-19, but did you know that anyone who talks about achieving herd immunity wit...

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Forced Sterilization

Episode Date: September 18, 2020

Many were shocked to learn of allegations of forced sterilizations at an ICE facility. In this episode, we explore the long American history of this p...

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Death Certificates

Episode Date: September 11, 2020

You may have recently heard a statistic that just six percent of COVID-19 deaths are attributed to COVID alone. This statistic was based on death cert...

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Nostalgia

Episode Date: September 4, 2020

Lately, have you found yourself pining for a simpler time? An easier time? Maybe just, like, ANY time other than your current one? You may be experien...

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Vagina Shaming

Episode Date: August 29, 2020

For millennia, people with vagina was told that there was something wrong with them (if they were even spoken about at all). Their vagina smelled wron...

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Oleander

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

Puzzled as to why a pillow peddler is pushing poison to the president to pacify a pandemic? Please press play.Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

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Grounded for Life

Episode Date: August 14, 2020

This week on Sawbones, we explore The Most Important Health Discovery Ever! We know it's the The Most Important Health Discovery Ever because the book...

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Osmosis Jones

Episode Date: August 7, 2020

This week on Sawbones, we close out the #MaxFunDrive with a FAR too thorough examination of history's only medical animated comedy in which Bill Murra...