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: Cough Drops

Episode Date: October 25, 2019

William Goldman wrote in The Princess Bride "True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops." This week on Sawbones, we ruin them. W...

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Sawbones: Ben Franklin

Episode Date: October 21, 2019

Ben Franklin may not have have been a doctor, but he still had a massive impact on the medical field in his time. What were his contributions? And was...

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Sawbones: Essential Oils

Episode Date: September 27, 2019

This week on Sawbones, we talk about the many, many things essential oils can't do for you and the dueling Utah-based companies that insist we're wron...

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Sawbones: Garlic

Episode Date: September 20, 2019

For thousands of years, throughout an unprecedented number of cultures, garlic has been touted for its ability to improve our health. How? Well, by wa...

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Sawbones: Vaping

Episode Date: September 13, 2019

On Sawbones, we like to take a lot of hard lines and make grand proclamations: Vaccines good, viruses bad, that sort of thing. But when it comes to va...

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Sawbones: Hydrotherapy

Episode Date: September 9, 2019

Water: There's plenty of it, it's not obviously poisonous and it's cheap as all get out. Maybe THAT'S the answer to all our species' medical woes? ......

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Sawbones: The HPV Vaccine

Episode Date: August 30, 2019

A vaccine that can practically eliminate a type of human cancer should be cause for celebration across our species. Would it surprise it to learn that...

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Sawbones: Sneezing

Episode Date: August 26, 2019

Welcome to all the owners of human bodies! You're gonna love these things, they can run, jump ... and every once in a while they uncontrollably blast...

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Sawbones: Fever

Episode Date: August 18, 2019

Any species could have created a bunch of bogus ways to treat fevers. But only humans could use fevers as a bogus treatment for other stuff and then e...