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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Vivien Thomas

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We mentioned him in our last episode, but Vivien Thomas deserves his own episode. Join Dr. Sydnee and Just as they explore the life of the high-school educated grandson of slaves that changed the face of surgery. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers

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0:00.0

Saubones 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, Tommy is about to books. One, two, one, two, three, four.

0:33.0

We came across a pharmacy with a toy and that's lost it out. We were shot through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:56.0

I'm medicine, I'm medicine, I'm the escalant macaw for the mouth.

1:03.0

Hello everybody, welcome to Saubones, a marital tour of Miss Guy, I'm your co-host Justin McAroy.

1:09.0

I'm Cindy McAroy. Hi, Syd. Hi Justin. How are you this week?

1:14.0

I'm good. I'm doing very well. I'm excited to hear what you've cooked up for us.

1:18.0

Oh, so I should just like jump right into it. Just jump right into it. I'm ready. No preamble.

1:22.0

Well, that's fine because I actually was inspired to do this episode while I was researching last week's episode.

1:30.0

That's right folks, it's another famous Saubones combo.

1:34.0

Oh no. Don't say that because then they'll expect us to just keep going. Remember we did that for a while. How long did we do that?

1:39.0

We had like a six episode chain. Yeah. Yeah.

1:43.0

I don't know that I'm ready for that. No, no, absolutely.

1:45.0

I'm not going to commit that far. But while I was, if you listened to our episode last week, it was about

1:50.0

tetrology of follow and the kind of the development of the procedure that fixed that and where that,

1:57.0

but the history of that was a hole in the heart that was brought to our attention by Jimmy Kimmel story on his show.

2:04.0

Yes. It is much more than just a hole in the heart. I did a whole episode.

2:09.0

So you were my co-host about it. There were there's an overflow from one chamber and do another back.

2:18.0

Yeah. Okay. There you go. I hop. Remember I hop. Right. Got it. Now you've got it. I heart.

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