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: 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: 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: Quarantine

Episode Date: March 2, 2020

For reasons we assume you can guess, we're discussing the history of quarantine, and how its historical misuse should make you particularly alert in t...

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Sawbones: Laudable Pus

Episode Date: February 17, 2020

This week on Sawbones, it's the truly embarrassing story of why we spent several centuries thinking it was important for us to make wounds as pus-fill...

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Sawbones: Body Temperature

Episode Date: February 10, 2020

This week on Sawbones, things are getting hot! Well, no, come to think of it, they’re doing the opposite. They’re getting colder. And by “they” we mea...

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Sawbones: Coronavirus

Episode Date: February 2, 2020

This week on Sawbones, we've got a no-panic-allowed history of coronavirus along with a guide to the current strain that has held the headlines in a s...

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Sawbones: IV Cocktails

Episode Date: January 24, 2020

Would it surprise you to learn that people with too much money are flocking to "IV bars" and paying hundreds of dollars for intravenous cocktails of v...

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Sawbones: Viking's Disease

Episode Date: January 19, 2020

This week on Sawbones, we celebrate a trip to Minnesota with an exploration of Viking's Disease. You'll meet the people it isn't really named for and...

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Sawbones: Bidets

Episode Date: January 10, 2020

We bidets have been all the rage for years around the globe, they never really caught on in the U.S. What part of their seedy history kept them out of...