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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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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...
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Vaccine Verification
Episode Date: April 20, 2021About a year ago, Sawbones discussed what herd immunity was not. In this episode, we look at how we’ll get there, and what role vaccine verification w...
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St John's Wort
Episode Date: April 6, 2021A somewhat invasive plant with yellow flowers named after John the Baptist has been used for centuries as a kind of cure all. Dr. Sydnee will lead you...
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Gamer Danger
Episode Date: March 30, 2021When the Nintendo Wii was released, it also came with a warning about potential injuries, to yourself and to others. But are video games good or bad f...
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Blue Light Therapy
Episode Date: March 23, 2021Have you ever noticed an old house house that has blue glass windows? It's pretty, sure, but it's also supposed to provide healing energy. You can tha...
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COVID-19: One Year Later
Episode Date: March 16, 2021It's been around a year since COVID-19 began to reshape America. On this week's episode of Sawbones, we look back at the past 12 months and examine wh...
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Harm Reduction
Episode Date: March 9, 2021There are simple, common-sense ways we can save the lives of injection drug users. The United States is woefully behind in adopting these best practic...
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Believe It Or Not, More As for Your Qs
Episode Date: March 2, 2021The more questions answered, the more oddly specific they become. Justin plays the listener as Dr Sydnee addresses Alice in Wonderland syndrome, super...
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The U.S. Surgeon General
Episode Date: February 16, 2021A new presidential administration means a new U.S. Surgeon General, so this week on Sawbones, we're examining exactly what that means. Are they a gene...