Sawbones: Mononucleosis

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been interrupted on a college campus by someone asking about your latest incident of intimate kissing? That's because they were trying to track the spread of a common infection called mononucleosis, or mono. Dr. Sydnee goes over the history of how the virus that caused mono was tracked down, and how it's tested for now. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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0:00.0	Saw bones 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.
0:24.0	Alright, time is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.
0:31.0	One, two, one, two, three, four.
0:48.0	We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out.
0:53.0	We pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around, some medicines, the medicines, the escalant macaque
1:00.0	for the mouth.
1:05.0	Hello everybody, welcome to Saw bones, Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. I'm your co-host, Justin McRoy.
1:10.0	And I'm Sydney McRoy.
1:12.0	Some times I take a look at the notes you send over and I kind of think, oh that's interesting.
1:20.0	I'll have some thoughts about it. Like, oh I should work out some fun jokes about that.
1:26.0	Yeah. And I don't know what this word means. I don't know what this word means.
1:32.0	You know what this is because you have a joke and I was going to let you get it out of the way early in the podcast.
1:38.0	Oh right.
1:40.0	Because I already know you use the long version mononucleosis, not just mono.
1:45.0	Not just mono. That's funny.
1:47.0	That's funny.
1:48.0	Funny story about mono.
1:50.0	I once thought I had mono for an entire month and turns out I was just really washed.
1:55.0	There we go. There it is.
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