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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For 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 commercials for prescription medicines with jaunty names and a full minute disclaimer at the end. How they came to be the norm here is a complicated history of bad medicine and the shifting of credence among doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies. Consider becoming a supporter of our show: www.maximumfun.org/join/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Saw bones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.0

It's for fun. Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.0

We think you've earned it. Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.0

You're worth it.

0:24.0

Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:31.0

One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:48.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out.

0:52.0

We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves hot like a rum.

0:56.0

I'm not a sense, I'm not a sense, the escalator might come before the mouth.

1:03.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Saw Bones.

1:08.0

Emerald Turbist guy, medicine, I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

1:11.0

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

1:12.0

And we're broke. That's right folks.

1:15.0

Mc's Fun Network is broke. We're ruined.

1:18.0

No, that's not. We're not. We're not.

1:20.0

We're broke. We're ruined.

1:21.0

And this is the time of year where you get to say, no, I'm not going to let the network cancel maximum fun.

1:28.0

The higher ups, the big cheese.

1:31.0

This is the way to fight the man.

1:32.0

The big cheese, the man wants to shut us down.

1:34.0

This is a pirate signal you're getting right now.

1:36.0

And the man wants to buy it and shut it down and turn it into just another channel fall of.

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