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: Lisztomania

Episode Date: August 19, 2025

Before the hysteria of Swifties and Beatlemania, people were getting hype over the handsome pianist Franz Liszt.  Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about wha...

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Sawbones: King of Sting

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

A dovetail from last week’s episode, Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about the official pain scale of insect stings, all compiled by Justin O. Schmidt. So...

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Sawbones: Wasps

Episode Date: July 1, 2025

After an unfortunate and painful encounter with an angry flying insect, Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about wasps: how their stings work, and a journey i...

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Sawbones: The Heartmobile

Episode Date: June 24, 2025

It used to be that if you needed to get to the hospital quickly, you would call the herse – because it had the space to transport a person who was lyi...

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Sawbones: MAHA Mess

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Dr. Sydnee and Justin said they'd talk about when the US Health Department replaced the vaccine council . . . well, it's happened. But to EVERYONE'S s...

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Sawbones: Sex Chocolate

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

It's a Sawbones grab-bag, featuring some pop-sci mythbusting around MSG, a reality check into current events around vaccines, and a fun new questionab...

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Sawbones Classics: Fluoride

Episode Date: May 20, 2025

With all the news around fluoride, we bring the classic Sawbones episode about the benefits of fluoride in drinking water, because the science has not...

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Sawbones: Dr. Pope

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

There was a time when Popes had secondary careers (or primary ones) on to of their Papal one. This includes Pope John XXI, the only Pope to have also...

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Sawbones: Tetanus

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

It's a myth that tetanus is only found on rusty metal. What really matters is that a wound that is a dirty, deep puncture wound could to introduce the...

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Sawbones: Thalassotherapy

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

TikTok has become enthralled with the idea of Thalassotherapy... which is basically going to the ocean to feel better. Dr. Sydnee talks about the hist...

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Sawbones: The Pitt

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Dr. Sydnee brings a little levity as she talks about a new medical show, The Pitt. Following fictional doctors in real-time(ish), Dr. Sydnee discusses...