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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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Sawbones: The Most Dangerous Parade

Sawbones: The Most Dangerous Parade

This week on Sawbones, we discuss Philadelphia's disastrous Fourth Liberty Loan Parade that helped reignite the 1918 inf... Read more

24 Apr 2020

49mins

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Sawbones: Hydrotherapy

Sawbones: Hydrotherapy

Water: There's plenty of it, it's not obviously poisonous and it's cheap as all get out. Maybe THAT'S the answer to all ... Read more

9 Sep 2019

41mins

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Sawbones: IV Cocktails

Sawbones: IV Cocktails

Would it surprise you to learn that people with too much money are flocking to "IV bars" and paying hundreds of dollars ... Read more

24 Jan 2020

45mins

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Sawbones: Plague Medicine

Sawbones: Plague Medicine

Welcome to Sawbones, where Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy take you on a whimsical tour of the dumb wa... Read more

12 Jul 2013

32mins

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Sawbones: Food Sensitivity Testing

Sawbones: Food Sensitivity Testing

The market is flooded with at-home tests that let you "take medical care into your own hands" but is that something you ... Read more

15 Nov 2019

44mins

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Sawbones: Auto-Brewery Syndrome

Sawbones: Auto-Brewery Syndrome

On Sawbones, we take pride in our ability to detangle medical myth from fact and give you the truth about the human body... Read more

3 Nov 2019

43mins

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Sawbones: Genetically-Modified Organisms

Sawbones: Genetically-Modified Organisms

This week on Sawbones, we're talking about genetically-modified organisms. Should you be afraid when you see GMO on pack... Read more

20 Apr 2018

53mins

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Sawbones: Taint Tanning and Heliotherapy

Sawbones: Taint Tanning and Heliotherapy

Listen, we're not gonna sit here all fancy and act like we didn't just record an entire episode about people sunning the... Read more

6 Dec 2019

40mins

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Sawbones: Alkaline Water

Sawbones: Alkaline Water

As shelves seem to be overtaken by "pH-balanced" beverages, alkaline water has moved from the fringes into the mainstrea... Read more

12 Jan 2019

45mins

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Sawbones: Your Weird Questions, Our Weirder Answers

Sawbones: Your Weird Questions, Our Weirder Answers

We've spotted a boatload of your weird medical questions on the horizon and we've pointed our knowledge cannons at it an... Read more

3 Nov 2018

37mins

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Sawbones: Cough Drops

Sawbones: Cough Drops

William Goldman wrote in The Princess Bride "True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops." This wee... Read more

25 Oct 2019

40mins

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Sawbones: CBD Oil

Sawbones: CBD Oil

CBD oil is collecting a lot of adherents and getting a lot of buzz due to, in part, it being derived from cannabis. It w... Read more

4 Aug 2018

43mins

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Sawbones: Ben Franklin

Sawbones: Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin may not have have been a doctor, but he still had a massive impact on the medical field in his time. What w... Read more

21 Oct 2019

33mins

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Sawbones: Vaping

Sawbones: Vaping

On Sawbones, we like to take a lot of hard lines and make grand proclamations: Vaccines good, viruses bad, that sort of ... Read more

13 Sep 2019

52mins

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Sawbones: Birth Control

Sawbones: Birth Control

Welcome to Sawbones, where Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy take you on a whimsical tour of the dumb wa... Read more

20 Sep 2013

38mins

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Sawbones: Jilly Juice

Sawbones: Jilly Juice

This week on Sawbones, Dr. Sydnee and Justin take a swig from the new miracle drink Jilly Juice, which can not only cure... Read more

9 Nov 2018

40mins

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Sawbones: Urine

Sawbones: Urine

Welcome to Sawbones, where Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy take you on a whimsical tour of the dumb wa... Read more

13 Sep 2013

34mins

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Sawbones: Raw Water

Sawbones: Raw Water

Do you need a doctor and her lovely sidekick to tell you that you shouldn't drink dirty water? No, probably not. But, in... Read more

15 Jan 2018

37mins

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Sawbones: Wound Care

Sawbones: Wound Care

This week on Sawbones, Justin and Dr. Sydnee explore all the weird, terrible ways we've tried to fix one of the human bo... Read more

7 Dec 2017

43mins

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Sawbones: Ketogenic Diet

Sawbones: Ketogenic Diet

You've likely heard a lot about the ketogenic diet lately, but have you heard it wasn't created for weight loss? Maybe y... Read more

24 Jun 2018

37mins

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