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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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The Brompton Cocktail
Episode Date: July 26, 2022In 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, 2022Around 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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Answering Your Questions About the Roe Verdict
Episode Date: July 5, 2022The overturning of Roe has created an astounding number of questions and problems, and the fact is that we don’t know for sure how the landscape will...
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Radium Girls
Episode Date: June 28, 2022Back 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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Is it Safe to Eat This Plutonium?
Episode Date: June 7, 2022We’re back with Sawbones Medical Questions! Justin acts as stand-in for the listeners while Dr. Sydnee answers questions about tall people getting COV...
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History of Abortion
Episode Date: May 24, 2022With 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, 2022The 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...
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Harry Beno: The Poison King
Episode Date: May 3, 2022Harry Beno (not BEAN-o) one day walked into a barn hungry for biscuits and emerged the poison king. Believing himself immune to strychnine, Beno took...
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Testicle Tanning
Episode Date: April 26, 2022Some people believe that men in the world are getting softer and masculinity is under attack. But not to worry, there’s a solution: tanning your . . ....
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The World of Warcraft Plague and COVID
Episode Date: April 12, 2022A very long time ago, in 2019, we talked about the Corrupted Blood plague, a pandemic within the World of Warcraft. How it affected the digital world...
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Bach's Flower Remedies
Episode Date: April 5, 2022In the mid-20th century, Dr. Edward Bach developed a series of diluted tinctures from ingredients of the natural world to combat negative emotions, an...
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Food Dye and Behavior
Episode Date: March 29, 2022Do artificially colored food dyes make your kids behave badly? This sounds like it could be true, and is certainly alluring to parents as an easy fix....
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Spring Medical Questions Are in the Air
Episode Date: March 22, 2022It’s time to do a little bit of inbox spring cleaning with all these listener medical questions! Justin reads and Dr. Sydnee answers medical questions...
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Star Jelly
Episode Date: March 15, 2022Have you ever gone outside and found gelatinous goop on the ground? It’s jelly from the stars! But actually . . . what is it? As far back as the 14th...
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Update: Havana Syndrome
Episode Date: March 8, 2022Havana Syndrome has been in the news lately, so we've brought an update. The CIA has continued to look into people experiencing the symptoms of this s...