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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The snow’s piling up outside so we’re cozying down with another batch of listener medical questions! Can I take all my antibiotics at once? If my twin has an allergy, do I have it too? Are prenatal vitamins good for people who do not want to get pregnant? And can air literally get knocked out of your lungs? Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: https://www.ilcm.org/donate/

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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.
0:22.6	You're worth it.
0:25.9	All right.
0:27.5	Tommy is about some books.
0:30.6	One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out.
0:52.5	Pushed on through the broken glass
0:54.4	And had ourselves a look around
0:56.3	The medicines, the medicines that ask
0:58.9	Gallant McComb for the mouth
1:04.8	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones
1:07.5	Marital Tour of Miss Guide of Medicine
1:08.9	I'm your co-host Justin McRoy
1:10.5	And I'm Sidney McElroy.
1:11.6	And we're back here with another medical questions and answers episode.
1:16.8	We're going to take your questions that you have about the human body.
1:20.8	And we are going to try your best to solve them.
1:25.3	And I will say some of them have gotten pretty weird to hear Sydney report it from the inbox.
1:32.5	I feel like some of you all may be trying to be even more weird than you already are to try to get on the weird medical questions episode, which I respect.
1:41.2	I don't think that.
1:42.6	I don't think that we have cultivated. Here's the way I like to look at it.
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