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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 Sleeping Sickness
- Rufus Weaver and Harriet Cole
- Band-Aids
- Metamucil
- The Brompton Cocktail
- Hand Sanitizer
- Answering Your Questions About the Roe Verdict
- Radium Girls
- Vomiting
- Is it Safe to Eat This Plutonium?
- Monkeypox
- History of Abortion
- Infant Formula
- Harry Beno: the Poison King
- Testicle Tanning
- Cereal
- The World of Warcraft Plague and COVID
- Bach's Flower Remedies
- Food Dye and Behavior
- Spring Medical Questions Are in the Air
- Star Jelly
- Update: Havana Syndrome
- Dr. Charles Drew and Blood Donations
- Now That’s What I Call Weird Medical Questions
- Ben Franklin’s Glass Armonica
- Doctoring While Sick
- Baker-Miller Pink
- The Omicron Variant
- Mariko Aoki Phenomenon
- Twelve Days of Christmas
- Sawbones Classic: Home Alone
- Tis the Season for Weird Medical Questions
- Alka-Seltzer
- How to Detox from a Vaccine
- Arsenic Wallpaper
- Melioidosis
- Sex and Gender
- The Green Children of Woolpit
- The Malaria Vaccine
- The Pill that Helps Prevent HIV
- Bruising
- Weird Medical Questions Strike Back
- Black Oxygen Organics
- Herbalife
- Havana Syndrome
- Thalidomide
- Vicks
- Virology
- Balto
- Naloxone
- Hot Medical Question Summer
- Jimmy Buffett
- Physician Burnout
- Black Lung Disease
- COVID Variants and Guns for Vaccines
- The Parasite Delusion
- Papaya Seeds and Parasites
- Revenge of the Sawbones Quiz
- Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
- Chlorophyll
- Vaccine Verification
- St John's Wort
- Gamer Danger
- Blue Light Therapy
- COVID-19: One Year Later
- Harm Reduction
- Believe It or Not, More as for Your Qs
- The U.S. Surgeon General
- Mewing
- The Great Smog
- How to Talk About Vaccine Hesitancy
- Dropsy
- COVID-19: The Final Mile
- COVID Vaccine Questions and Answers
- Don't Steal Your Dog's Worm Medicine to Treat COVID-19
- Sawbones: Clinical Trials
- Even More Weird Medical Questions
- Hypodermic Needles
- Angel's Glow
- A Health Care Voter's Guide
- Herd Immunity
- Sawbones: Osteopathic Medicine
- Our 2020 Flu Shot Extravaganza
- How Horseshoe Crabs (Probably) Saved Your Life
- Forced Sterilization
- Death Certificates
- Nostalgia
- Vagina Shaming
- Oleander
- Grounded for Life
- Osmosis Jones
- Dr. Joycelyn Elders
- Operation Warp Speed
- Sawbones: Amnesia
- Health Media Literacy
- Sawbones: the Weight of the Human Soul
- Systemic Racism in Medical Honors
- Sawbones: COVID-19 and Bad Data
- Sawbones: the Black Panthers and Public Health
- Sawbones: Medical Racism and Protest Safety
- Sawbones: the Cholera Riots
- Sawbones: COVID-19 Q&A
- Sawbones: Cabin Fever
- Sawbones: COVID Lies, Darned Lies and Statistics
- Sawbones: the Most Dangerous Parade
- Sawbones: Dr. Anthony Fauci and Coronavirus Myths
- Sawbones: Hydroxychloroquine
- Sawbones: Ignaz Semmelweis
- Sawbones: Masks
- Sawbones: Coronavirus Part 2
- Sawbones: Revenge of the Weird Medical Questions
- Sawbones: How Yellow Fever (Nearly) Destroyed Philadelphia
- Sawbones: Quarantine
- Sawbones: William Cunningham and the Ghouls of Cincinnati
- Sawbones: Laudable Pus
- Sawbones: Body Temperature
- Sawbones: Coronavirus
- Sawbones: IV Cocktails
- Sawbones: Viking's Disease
- Sawbones: Bidets
- Sawbones: the Chicago River Reversal
- A Medicine Called Christmas 2: a Royal Pain
- Sawbones: Elderberry and Other Things That Don't Prevent the Flu
- Sawbones: Taint Tanning and Heliotherapy
- Sawbones: Yes Virginia, There Are More Medical Questions
- Sawbones: the Man Behind the Knick
- Sawbones: Food Sensitivity Testing
- Sawbones: Auto-Brewery Syndrome
- Sawbones: Cough Drops
- Sawbones: Ben Franklin
- Sawbones: the Hippocratic Oath
- Sawbones: National Hotel Disease
- Sawbones: Essential Oils
- Sawbones: Garlic
- Sawbones: Vaping
- Sawbones: Hydrotherapy
- Sawbones: The HPV Vaccine
- Sawbones: Sneezing
- Sawbones: Fever
- Sawbones: Eli Lilly's Secret Pot Farm
- Sawbones: Yes, More Medical Questions Answered!
- Sawbones: the Chattanooga Medicine Company
- Sawbones: Medical Reversals
- Sawbones: Wine
- Sawbones: Medicine in Japanese American Concentration Camps
- Sawbones: Trichinosis
- Sawbones: Adenoviruses
- Sawbones: Paternity Testing
- Sawbones: the World of Warcraft Plague
- Sawbones: the First Pharmacist
- Sawbones: Bleach
- Sawbones: Why Doctors Don't Fix Teeth
- Sawbones: Warfarin
- Sawbones: Cavities
- Sawbones: Pinworms
- Sawbones: Modern Day Snake Oil Salespeople
- Sawbones: Broken Heart Syndrome
- Sawbones: Medical Legends of Alabama
- Sawbones: Stroke
- Sawbones: Rubella
- Sawbones: Auriculotherapy
- Sawbones: Mumps
- Tom Brady's Snake Oil
- Sawbones: Rock Medicine
- Sawbones: Bizarro World
- Sawbones: Alkaline Water
- Sawbones: Colic and Gripe Water
- A Sawbones Special Presentation: a Medicine Called Christmas
- Sawbones: Vitamin B17
- Sawbones: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Sawbones: the Herpes Thanksgiving Special
- Sawbones: Black Salve
- Sawbones: Jilly Juice
- Sawbones: Your Weird Questions, Our Weirder Answers
- Sawbones: Possession
- Sawbones: 27 Reasons Why You Should Get a Flu Shot
- Sawbones: Dr. Price's Bad Ideas
- Sawbones: the Oregon Trail
- Sawbones: Vasectomy
- Sawbones: Medical Illustration
- Sawbones: Memorialization and Medical Ethics
- Sawbones: Ether
- Sawbones: Asbestos
- Sawbones: Perkins' Tractors
- Sawbones: the Placebo Effect
- Sawbones: CBD Oil
- Sawbones: Applied Kinesiology
- Sawbones: the Bends
- Sawbones: Ozone
- Sawbones: Antimony
- Sawbones: Ketogenic Diet
- Sawbones: Our Mental Health Stories
- Sawbones: Medical Astrology
- Sawbones: DNA Testing
- Sawbones: Freckles
- Sawbones: Hepatitis a
- Sawbones: Legends of the Hidden Breast
- Sawbones: Fractures
- Sawbones: Genetically-Modified Organisms
- The Ghastly Gauntlet: a Sawbones Super Quiz
- Sawbones: the Secret Life of Doctors
- Sawbones: Bee Venom Therapy
- Sawbones: ALS and the Many Diseases of Jean-Martin Charcot
- Sawbones: Ambulances
- Sawbones: Our Second Birth Story
- Sawbones: Yet More Medical Questions Answered
- Sawbones: Antibiotics
- Sawbones: Goiter
- Sawbones: Don't Eat Tide Pods
- Sawbones: Raw Water
- Sawbones: Home Alone
- Sawbones: The CDC and Medical Censorship
- Sawbones: Coffee
- Sawbones: Wound Care
- Sawbones: the Baby Show
- Sawbones: Legionnaires' Disease
- Sawbones: Charcoal
- Sawbones: Chili Peppers
- Sawbones: Soda
- Sawbones: the Moon
- Sawbones: Inside a Doctor's Bag
- Sawbones: Aspirin
- Sawbones: the Glass Delusion
- Sawbones: the Presidential Fitness Test
- Sawbones: Snoring
- Sawbones: Tickling
- Sawbones: Eugenics
- Sawbones: Opioid Addiction
- Sawbones: Erectile Dysfunction
- Sawbones: Mutter Museum
- The (Maybe) Real Dr. Frankenstein
- Sawbones: Wrinkles
- Sawbones: an Incomplete History of Gender Confirmation
- Sawbones: Yet More Weird Medical Answers
- Sawbones: Conversion Therapy Part 2
- Sawbones: Conversion Therapy Part 1
- Sawbones: Medicinal Tattoos
- Sawbones: the Clap
- Sawbones: Vivien Thomas
- Sawbones: Tetralogy of Fallot
- Sawbones: the Salisbury Diet
- Sawbones: Flouride
- Sawbones: The 80-Hour Work Week
- Sawbones: Pica and Eating Dirt
- Sawbones: the Papanicolaou Test
- Sawbones: More Weird Medical Answers
- Sawbones: the Incredible Dr. James Barry
- Sawbones: Norovirus
- Sawbones: Patient Privacy
- Sawbones: the Purification Rundown
- Sawbones: Detox
- Sawbones: Sinuses
- Sawbones: the Man Who Ate Everything
- Sawbones: Immigration Medicine
- Sawbones: Health Insurance
- Sawbones: Silver
- Sawbones: Space Medicine
- Sawbones: Santa Is Sick
- Sawbones: Chapped Lips
- Sawbones: Ginger
- Sawbones: Vaseline
- Sawbones: Cranberries
- Sawbones: Chicken Pox
- Sawbones: Your Medical Questions, Answered!
- Sawbones: Frankberry Stool
- Sawbones: Ghostwatch
- Sawbones: Medical Games
- Sawbones: Pellagra
- Sawbones: Hemorrhoids
- Sawbones: Laughter
- Sawbones: Pneumonia
- Sawbones: Dental Hygiene
- Sawbones: EpiPen
- Sawbones: the Royal Fistula Fad
- Sawbones: Doping
- Sawbones: Cupping
- Sawbones: Arsenic
- Sawbones: Aloe
- Sawbones: Tea
- Sawbones: Goofy Medical Questions Vol. 3
- Sawbones: Medical Garb
- Sawbones: Salt
- Sawbones: Narcolepsy
- Sawbones: the Presidents Are Sick
- Sawbones: Pliny the Elder
- Sawbones: Mary Roach
- Sawbones: Kombucha
- Sawbones: Kidney Stones
- Sawbones: Bezoars
- Sawbones: Tinnitus
- Sawbones: Goofiest Medical Questions Vol. 2
- Sawbones: Earaches
- Sawbones: Earwax
- Sawbones: Hydrogen Peroxide
- Sawbones: Hemophilia
- Sawbones: Poop
- Sawbones: Your Goofiest Medical Questions: Answered
- Sawbones: Vinegar
- Sawbones: Hookworm
- Sawbones: the King of Quacks
- Sawbones: Heartburn
- Sawbones: Crystal Healing
- Sawbones: Zika Virus
- Sawbones: the People vs. the Spleen
- Sawbones: Nosebleeds
- Sawbones: Green Sickness
- Sawbones: Fasting
- Sawbones: Christmas is Trying to Kill You
- Sawbones: Scurvy
- Sawbones: Gunshot Wounds
- Sawbones: Scarlet Fever
- Sawbones: the Poison Squad
- Sawbones: the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits
- Sawbones: Nursing
- Sawbones: Medical History Halloween Costumes
- Sawbones: Roundworm
- Sawbones: Lyme Disease
- Sawbones: Near-Death Experiences
- Sawbones: Aah, Real Monsters!
- Sawbones: Snakes
- Sawbones: Lice
- Sawbones: Cats
- Sawbones: Birds
- Sawbones: Love
- Sawbones: Conjoined Twins
- Sawbones: Hygiene
- Sawbones: Honey
- Sawbones: Fainting and Corsets
- The Unkillable Phineas Gage
- Sawbones: The Seasick-Proof Saloon
- Sawbones: Guinea Worms
- Sawbones: Burns
- Sawbones: Sunburns
- Sawbones: the Teen Girl
- Sawbones: Medical TV (Part 2)
- Sawbones: Poison Ivy
- Sawbones: Typhoid Mary
- Sawbones: the Gut Hole Romance
- Sawbones: Sweating Sickness
- Sawbones: Polio
- Sawbones: Heroes of Patent Medicine: Volume 3
- Sawbones: Heroes of Patent Medicine: Volume 2
- Sawbones: Heroes of Patent Medicine: Volume 1
- Sawbones: Medical TV (Part 1)
- Sawbones: Medical Education
- Sawbones: Malaria
- Sawbones: Syphilis
- Sawbones: the Four Humors
- Sawbones: Chocolate
- Sawbones: the Dancing Plague
- Sawbones: Measles
- Sawbones: Paracelsus
- Sawbones: Blood Transfusions
- Sawbones: Aromatherapy
- Sawbones: Diabetes
- Sawbones: Alcohol
- Sawbones: Appalachian Folk Medicine
- Sawbones: Organ Transplants
- Sawbones: Enemas and Cleanses
- Sawbones: Tooth Removal
- Sawbones: Asthma and Allergies
- Sawbones: Influenza
- Sawbones: Ebola
- Sawbones: Vitamins
- Sawbones: the Goat Testicle Solution
- Sawbones: Cataracts
- Sawbones: Acne
- Sawbones: Color Therapy
- Sawbones: Insomnia
- Sawbones: Our Birth Story
- Sawbones: Spontaneous Combustion
- Sawbones: Gout
- Sawbones: Rabies
- Sawbones: Hiccups
- Sawbones: Birth
- Sawbones: Vaccines
- Sawbones: C-Sections
- Sawbones: Breastfeeding
- Sawbones: Corpse Theft and the Resurrection Men
- Sawbones: Teething
- Sawbones: Warts
- Sawbones: Cholera
- Sawbones: Sleepwalking
- Sawbones: Self-Experimentation
- Sawbones: Epilepsy
- Sawbones: Magnets
- Sawbones: Medical Cannibalism
- Sawbones: Dr. Mesmer and the Power of Animal Magnetism
- Sawbones: Medical Marijuana
- Sawbones: Oil Pulling
- Sawbones: Phrenology
- Sawbones: Plastic Surgery
- Sawbones: Left-handedness
- Sawbones: Pregnancy Tests
- Sawbones: Tuberculosis
- Sawbones: the Father of Homeopathy
- Sawbones: Leprosy
- Sawbones: Menstruation
- Sawbones: Royal Rife
- Sawbones: Hangovers
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