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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Sawbones, where Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin McElroy take you on a whimsical tour of the dumb ways in which we've tried to fix people. This week: We met a hero of medicine who was also a bit of a nut. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers (http://thetaxpayers.net)

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 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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