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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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Weird Medical Questions Strike Back
Episode Date: September 22, 2021Is there evidence that sugary drinks cause worse hangovers? Does green snot mean there’s an infection? We’re answering more of your weird medical ques...
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Black Oxygen Organics
Episode Date: September 14, 2021Well, people are eating dirt. Real expensive dirt, too. That’s where we’re at. There’s a multi-level marketing company that sells people dirt to eat....
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Havana Syndrome
Episode Date: August 31, 2021We’ve got a real mystery for you on Sawbones this week: Havana Syndrome. It’s either a secret beam being blasted at American diplomats . . . or a mas...
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Thalidomide
Episode Date: August 24, 2021In the 1950s, Thalidomide was rolled out very quickly and what followed was a tragic story that highlighted perils of greed and hidden agendas. This w...
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Hot Medical Question Summer
Episode Date: July 13, 2021It’s time to answer more of your medical queries, like what is Texidor’s Twinge, when does the sunscreen clock start, and yeast infections: why?Music:...
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Jimmy Buffett
Episode Date: July 7, 2021We recorded this episode live on the Joco Cruise 2020, where Dr. Sydnee dissects the medicine mentioned in the songs of Jimmy Buffett. What is recomme...
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Physician Burnout
Episode Date: June 29, 2021Workplace burnout is commonplace in the 21st century, but it’s a fairly recent idea. It’s especially insidious among physicians, who are taught that a...
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Black Lung Disease
Episode Date: June 15, 2021As any proud West Virginian knows, the history of mining in the United States is tied tightly to the history of the labor movement. This was partially...
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COVID Variants and Guns for Vaccines
Episode Date: June 8, 2021You might have heard about the COVID variants that have some people worried, and how effective the current vaccine will be against them. But not to wo...
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The Parasite Delusion
Episode Date: May 25, 2021Last week, we talked about if eating papaya seeds could rid your body of parasites (spoiler: it can’t). But being concerned about having parasites is...
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Papaya Seeds and Parasites
Episode Date: May 18, 2021TikTok is where the kids are getting all their information on new new wellness trends, so Dr Sydnee decided to check one that’s been popping up a lot:...
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Revenge of the Sawbones Quiz
Episode Date: May 11, 2021Test your medical history knowledge from this past year’s episodes in the Super Secret Sawbones Quiz of Interesting Information to Inform and Enlighte...
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Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
Episode Date: May 4, 2021For MaxFunDrive 2021, Sawbones is talking about gross medicine of a different sort. In the United States (and New Zealand) we see a lot of those comme...
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Chlorophyll
Episode Date: April 27, 2021Along with Dr. Sydnee’s amazing videos, TikTok is also a host to an interesting wellness trend: chlorophyll. The green pigment that helps plants turn...