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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 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...
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Dr. Charles Drew and Blood Donations
Episode Date: February 22, 2022In a Sawbones rarity, we’re talking about someone who contributed positively to the medical field. Very positively. Dr. Charles Drew, the first Black...
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Now That’s What I Call Weird Medical Questions
Episode Date: February 15, 2022What question would you ask a doctor if you were sitting next to them? That’s what the goal is today on Sawbones, where “we”, mostly Sydnee, answer li...
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Ben Franklin’s Glass Armonica
Episode Date: February 8, 2022Benjamin Franklin: Prolific writer. Founding Father. Inventor. Creator of a killer instrument? The Glass Armonica, more or less a series of singing wa...
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Doctoring While Sick
Episode Date: February 1, 2022Work culture often lauds the idea that you should go to work even if you’re sick. This is true among a lot of occupations, but the self-declared worst...
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Baker-Miller Pink
Episode Date: January 18, 2022This episode of Sawbones is a little lighter, and what’s lighter than pink? Nothing, especially when we’re talking about Baker-Miller Pink, a hue theo...
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The Omicron Variant
Episode Date: January 11, 2022After a week of working on the hospital floor, Dr. Sydnee discusses her personal experience with the current state of the health care system and what...
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Mariko Aoki Phenomenon
Episode Date: January 4, 2022Have you ever had the sudden urge to go to the bathroom while browsing in a TJ Maxx or a book store? Well, apparently many people have. This phenomeno...
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Twelve Days of Christmas
Episode Date: December 21, 2021The song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" sounds like an extravagant and generous cavalcade of gifts. But what if your true love had less than pure inte...
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Sawbones Classic: Home Alone
Episode Date: December 14, 2021We're re-releasing our classic holiday episode all about Home Alone.For your listening edification, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her lovely assistant Justin...
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Tis the Season for Weird Medical Questions
Episode Date: December 7, 2021We're warming the December chill with another Sawbones Q+A, answering all the weird medical questions that can only be answered publicly, on a podcast...
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Alka-Seltzer
Episode Date: November 30, 2021Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a LEGACY it is. Welcome back to Justin McElroy’s Medical Brand Hall of Fame, where we can put aside questions of scien...
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Arsenic Wallpaper
Episode Date: November 16, 2021No, dear listener, “arsenic wallpaper” is not just a great band name, it’s also a reference to a mid-1800s fanaticism around using arsenic to create a...