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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

How Horseshoe Crabs (Probably) Saved Your Life

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Horses? Majestic. Frogs? Maybe royalty. But have you taken a moment to reflect on the humble, half-billion-year old horseshoe crab that almost certainly saved your life with its incredible blood? If not, THIS is that moment.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Sawbones 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.

0:25.0

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

0:33.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, Meryl Turf, Miss Guy at Medicine. I am your co-host, Justin McAroy.

1:11.0

And I'm Sydney McAroy. Justin, you know how my dad likes to send me news articles a lot?

1:19.0

All dads like to send things. Of a certain age, all dads like to send things. My dad sends me new movie trailers and announcements that celebrities have died. Those are the two things that I get from my dad.

1:31.0

Dad's love to tell you when anybody has died.

1:34.0

When anybody has died.

1:35.0

That's a big dad thing. And I will say that along those lines, usually the news stories that my dad sends me are not necessarily cheerful ones.

1:45.0

I'm a morbid street.

1:47.0

These are the things he usually likes to tell me about.

1:50.0

And so when I got an email this past week for my dad with a news article in it, I was like, Dad, things are pretty happy.

1:58.0

I don't know if I can handle this.

2:00.0

What have you brought me?

2:02.0

What fresh hell have you brought to my doorstep?

2:04.0

But what was inside was so, it was a nice little story, a nice little thing about the world and about medicine that I didn't know.

2:14.0

It was a pleasant little, mostly pleasant little story.

2:17.0

And it made for a really good episode.

2:20.0

And so I thought it would be something that I could then share from my dad to me, to all of you.

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