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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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Grounded for Life
Episode Date: August 14, 2020This 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, 2020This 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...
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Dr. Joycelyn Elders
Episode Date: July 31, 2020Dr. 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, 2020Yes 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, 2020In 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, 2020We'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 Weight of the Human Soul
Episode Date: July 3, 2020An introspective moment on Sawbones this week as we meet the doctor who devoted his life to discovering the weight of the human soul.NOTE: This episod...
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Systemic Racism in Medical Honors
Episode Date: June 26, 2020AOA is a medical honors society that's supposed to separate top-tier medical students from the rest of the pack. It helps determine which doctors get...
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Sawbones: COVID-19 and Bad Data
Episode Date: June 12, 2020OK, yes, this is an episode about medical research, but it's the sexiest medical research story you're ever going to hear. It's got scandal! It's got...
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Sawbones: The Black Panthers and Public Health
Episode Date: June 5, 2020If you received the typical, white-centric education, you probably associate the Black Panthers only with violence and political protest. This week on...
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Sawbones: Medical Racism and Protest Safety
Episode Date: June 1, 2020This week on Sawbones, we examine how Black Americans have received substandard care and fewer opportunities within the American medical system. Also,...
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Sawbones: The Cholera Riots
Episode Date: May 22, 2020Fear 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, 2020It 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, 2020Did 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: COVID Lies, Darned Lies and Statistics
Episode Date: May 1, 2020Two doctors made headlines this week by trying to construct the narrative that the COVID-19 pandemic has been overblown by the hospital system in purs...
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Sawbones: The Most Dangerous Parade
Episode Date: April 24, 2020This week on Sawbones, we discuss Philadelphia's disastrous Fourth Liberty Loan Parade that helped reignite the 1918 influenza epidemic in the region....
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Sawbones: Dr. Anthony Fauci and Coronavirus Myths
Episode Date: April 17, 2020This week on Sawbones, we dive into the backstory of Dr. Anthony Fauci, a beacon of hope and reason for so many in these troubling days. In the back h...
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Sawbones: Hydroxychloroquine
Episode Date: April 12, 2020There 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, 2020This 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...