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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Why Don’t Americans get De-Wormed?

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.815.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Shrug off that winter chill with a warm bowl of listener-submitted medical questions. Questions like: Am I giving away my immunity with a blood donation? Can antibiotics make colds worse? Can you cough while sleeping? Are we really new people every seven years? And is there any real health benefit to shaving my armpits? Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

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. We think you've earned it. Just

0:16.2

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

0:24.0

All right, so I'm about some books.

0:29.0

One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out, pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around.

0:57.0

The medicines, the medicines that E'Sell and Macabre

1:00.0

for the mouth.

1:07.0

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

1:08.0

I'm your co-host Justin MacCrelle.

1:10.0

And I'm Sidney McElroy.

1:11.0

And I'm excited, Sid, it's another one of my favorite episodes, Medical Questions.

1:18.0

These are your favorite? I love doing these, except for some time. I mean, there have been individual ones that I have

1:24.7

really loved doing but these are always a hoot and I feel like I learn a lot too

1:29.2

and it's nice to be able to feel like you're connecting with our listeners a little bit.

1:33.4

It's fun.

1:34.4

It is fun.

1:35.4

Social media basically collapsing all around us.

1:38.6

It's nice to hear, read the emails, you know, hear from listeners.

1:41.7

No, that's a great point. That was couched in some sadness there, but that was a good. There's nothing sad about social media. It's good. It's good that it's all going away. I think that it's better. Let's just all shake hands and write letters.

1:54.0

Period.

1:55.0

That's for those of you that don't know, that's punctuation.

1:58.0

I learned it in school before social media ruined everything.

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