Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.

It's Bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorn, a quick warning before we get into this interview.

The conversation you're about to hear is about medical history, so we will be talking

about blood and guts and injuries and other potentially squeamish stuff, so if you're

sensitive to that we thought we'd let you know.

Anyway, there's something fascinating and morbid about medical history, something

that is unique to that genre.

Like if you read up on military history, odds are you'll hear a lot about generals

maneuvering soldiers around, surprising each other, burning down cities.

The technology has changed, but nothing else has really.

We've always known how to fight war.

But if you look into the history of medicine, one thing will become very clear, very quickly,

for a very, very, very long time we had no idea how our own bodies work.

Sabones, which is a podcast produced here at MaximumFun, is a show about all the gruesome

gross and sometimes very funny stuff that we did to our bodies in the name of health and

medicine.

It's hosted by Dr. Sidney McElroy, a physician and medical history buff, and her husband,

Justin McElroy, who hosts the show's My Brother, My Brother, and Me and the Adventure

Zone.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated the headlines, Sabones has also become a great

source for reliable context and information about vaccines, epidemiology, and why you

shouldn't take your dog's worm medicine to fight off the coronavirus.

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