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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Gallstones

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Do you even know where your gallbladder is? Maybe it's not so surprising that millions of Americans don't know they have a gastrointestinal disorder caused by gallstones. Dr. Sydnee and Justin go through the history of gallbladder disease, and why the icky medical mnemonic of "forty, fat, and fertile" is misleading and maybe even harmful. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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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. We think you've earned it. Just sit back,

0:17.0

relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth. You're worth it.

0:24.0

All right.

0:27.0

So I'm about some books.

0:30.0

One, two, one, two, one, two, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its a window's the windows blasted out. Pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around the medicines, the medicines that

0:58.0

Estelle and macabre for the mouth.

1:08.0

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones. A marital tour of misguided medicine.

1:09.0

I'm your co-host Justin McElroy.

1:11.0

And I'm Sydney McElroy.

1:12.0

Hey. Hey. It's been kind of, uh, uh, the snow's melted in case

1:18.1

you're looking for a snow update. The snow melted. I'm sure that everybody was

1:21.7

waiting to get their weather

1:23.0

update from our weekly podcast. Trapped with our rotten children for four out of

1:27.6

five days last week if you can believe. I love I love those days.

1:31.1

Someday you will look back on those days fondly.

1:35.0

Okay, is this a character you're playing?

1:37.3

Because the Sydney I know by day four was like,

1:40.4

I'm not doing great.

1:43.0

Well, the thing is like, this is the part, they always tell you other older parents, like by older, I don't mean older and age, I mean like they have older kids.

1:52.0

They've already been through this period of

1:53.0

parenting. They will always tell you like oh you'll miss these days. Someday they

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