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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Tom Brady's Snake Oil

Episode Date: February 5, 2019

Besides being a king of football and all around touchdown master, did you know Tom Brady endorses a training and nutrition regimen co-created by a guy...

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Sawbones: Rock Medicine

Episode Date: February 1, 2019

This week on Sawbones, we'll meet a San Francisco doctor that reimagined how we care for people with drug addiction and got a hit put out on himself i...

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Sawbones: Bizarro World

Episode Date: January 25, 2019

Imagine a world where Sawbones never existed, medical progress was halted and false wellness ran rampant. That's the horrifying world painted by a rec...

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Sawbones: Alkaline Water

Episode Date: January 12, 2019

As shelves seem to be overtaken by "pH-balanced" beverages, alkaline water has moved from the fringes into the mainstream. This week on Sawbones, Dr....

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Sawbones: Vitamin B17

Episode Date: December 15, 2018

This week's episode of Sawbones is all about "Vitamin B17" which is, brace yourself ... not a vitamin. Yup, it's gonna be one of those sorts of episod...

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Sawbones: Black Salve

Episode Date: November 16, 2018

Would you believe that the hot new (very old) alternative medicine paste that indiscriminately burns your cells off is bad for you? We know, we were s...

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Sawbones: Jilly Juice

Episode Date: November 9, 2018

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin take a swig from the new miracle drink Jilly Juice, which can not only cure every disease but can regrow...

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Sawbones: Possession

Episode Date: October 28, 2018

This week on Sawbones, we detail all the real medical conditions that have been mistaken for demonic possession and the modern day psychiatrists that...

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Sawbones: The Oregon Trail

Episode Date: October 8, 2018

This week Justin and Dr. Sydnee try desperately to save you from cholera on a grand tour of the many different ways to die on The Oregon Trail. Music:...

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Sawbones: Vasectomy

Episode Date: September 30, 2018

You had to see this one coming. Yes, just a few short weeks after Justin's surgery, Dr. Sydnee decides to explain the complete history of vasectomies...

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Sawbones: Ether

Episode Date: September 7, 2018

People talk a lot of mess about drugs being dangerous, and they're right. But did you know that ether frolics, a delightfully named drug party, inspir...