Sawbones: Benjamin Rush
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
Justin McElroy
4.8 • 15.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2013
⏱️ 34 minutes
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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 blasted out. We pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around, some medicines, some medicines that escalate my cop for the mouth. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a marital tour of misguided medicine. I am your cohost Justin McElroy. |
| 1:14.0 | And I'm Sydney McElroy. |
| 1:16.0 | Sydney, what are we talking about today? I'm excited. |
| 1:19.0 | Well, Justin, I feel like we've spent several, I don't know how many weeks we've been doing this. What? Probably about 35 weeks now? |
| 1:26.0 | This is week 11. |
| 1:27.0 | Oh, okay. Close. |
| 1:29.0 | You know, really talking down the medical profession. |
| 1:33.0 | Sure. Well, you guys have done a lot of like wicked bad stuff. |
| 1:37.0 | Okay. Well, obviously, and like I said, we've spent the last 74 weeks talking about that. |
| 1:42.0 | But, you know, as a physician myself, I would like to point out that there are some stars in our sky of medical history. |
| 1:55.0 | Is that a good? |
| 1:56.0 | So you found a hero of medical history. |
| 2:01.0 | I think so. I scoured the records and I found somebody that I really think we can talk about just his successes in the world of medicine. |
| 2:11.0 | That really truly exemplifies what it means to be a physician and to just, you know, take really good care of people. |
| 2:18.0 | I'm being all around good person. |
| 2:20.0 | So no bad thing. |
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