Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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Sawbones: Anthroposophy

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

Why not just connect the spiritual and scientific world? That's basically what anthroposophy asks, teaching a philosophical approach to medicine. Dr....

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Sawbones: Iridology

Episode Date: October 18, 2022

The eyes are the windows to the soul, but could they also be the windows to all the body's ailments? Dr. Sydnee and Justin discuss iridology, the idea...

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Sawbones: Dr. Oz

Episode Date: October 11, 2022

There are many people who have been recurring characters on Sawbones. Pliny the Elder. Charlie. But few so notorious as Dr. Mehmet Oz, now running for...

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Sawbones: Schizophrenia

Episode Date: October 4, 2022

Is schizophrenia the same as having a dissociative identity? Or anti-social disorder? Or being a murderer? No. No. All of these are wrong. Dr. Sydnee...

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Sawbones: E. coli

Episode Date: September 20, 2022

From our earliest days of life E. coli is among us and within us, living in harmony with the rest of our colonic flora. But this week we're here to di...

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Sawbones News: Vaccine Updates

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

Extra, extra! It’s the first edition of the Sawbones Medical News, updates on what’s going on in the world of medicine. We’ve got the newest reports o...

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The Sleeping Sickness

Episode Date: August 30, 2022

Starting In 1915, cases of something known as encephalitis lethargica started popping up around the globe. Symptoms were varied, but included some sor...

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Band-Aids

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

In this episode of Justin McElroy’s Medical Brand Hall of Fame, Justin and Dr. Sydnee are stuck on Band-Aid brand adhesive bandages. Justin goes throu...

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Metamucil

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

Hank Green in 2018 joked that everyone should take Metamucil, the fiber-rich powder that is supposed to help with your BMs. But is he right? Well . ....

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The Brompton Cocktail

Episode Date: July 26, 2022

In the late 1800s, Dr. Herbert Snow observed cancer patients and considered that a mix of different medications might do the trick for slowing down it...

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Hand Sanitizer

Episode Date: July 19, 2022

Around the early 1900s, it was discovered that a high percent of ethanol was useful for killing germs, and worked great if there was no available soap...

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Radium Girls

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

Back in 1917 radium was all the rage. The fact that it glowed made people believe it was healthy and important, so they included it in things like too...

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Vomiting

Episode Date: June 22, 2022

What’s the deal with vomiting? Justin and Dr. Sydnee meditate on the various ways we get nauseated, from smelling something gross to getting hit in a...

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Monkeypox

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

You may be worried we’re headed into another global health crisis in the form of Monkeypox. But it’s not new, and we already know quite a bit about it...

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History of Abortion

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

With the recent news about Roe v. Wade, it’s important to talk about the history of abortion in the United States. The right to autonomy over one’s ow...

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Infant Formula

Episode Date: May 17, 2022

The United States is currently in a dire formula shortage, and people are taking to the internet to propose some less than ideal solutions. Dr. Sydnee...