Sawbones: Horror Doctors
Horror movies and stories sure do have a lot of mad scientists and doctors running around. But should they still be practicing? Dr. Sydnee a...
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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
Join Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin for a tour of all the dumb, bad, gross, weird and wrong ways we've tried to fix people.
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20 of 600 episodesSawbones: Cinnamon
Unfortunately we can't have nice things. Dr. Sydnee and Justin must break the news that there is often lead in cinnamon, and discuss how exa...
Sawbones: Lethal Injection
The United States public opinion on the death penalty has waxed and waned so much that its use is on a state-by-state basis, nearly dividing...
Sawbones: Glucose Monitors
Would people benefit from wearing a glucose monitor all day every day, even if they’re not on insulin? Evidence does not say there is a bene...
Sawbones: Artificial Sweetener
Pretty much since the first artificial sweetener was developed, we've been concerned about their potential adverse effects. How could someth...
Sawbones: Dolphins and LSD
With an email subject line of "Dolphins and LSD", Dr. Sydnee and Justin just HAD dive deeper. Enter John C. Lilly, a doctor, scientist, and...
Sawbones: Catfish, Man of the Woods
All medicine is local, and little is more local to Justin and Dr. Sydnee than a medicine man in their own West Virginia. Dr. Sydnee talks ab...
Sawbones: Sentinel Chickens
Sawbones' least favorite animal, mosquitoes, are back with yet another reason they suck: Dengue Fever has made its way into Florida. But don...
Sawbones: Little People Hallucinations
There's been some social media talk about a psychoactive mushroom that causes visions of small people, like the Lilliputians from Gulliver's...
Sawbones: COVID Reflection and Butts Update
While some people in power are trying to minimize how bad things were at the height of COVID-19, we thought it was important to document the...
Sawbones: What’s More Edible, Paper or Cotton?
It’s one of our favorite kinds of episodes, making use of Dr. Sydnee’s expertise and Justin’s street smarts: medical questions! Why do we fa...
Sawbones: Cyclospora
The food has been going wild lately, and none more in the headlines this second than cyclospora parasite which is causing an outbreak of . ....
Sawbones: Medicine Brand Names
This week, Justin walks Sydnee through the complexities of pharmaceutical naming. Join them as they review the history of the functional reg...
Sawbones Classic: Sunburns
As folks in the northern hemisphere get back into the swing of summer we here at Sawbones thought it'd be a good time to reshare a classic e...
Sawbones: Blisters
We've probably all gotten a blister at some point, whether from walking too much or from shredding a guitar solo. Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk...
Sawbones: Matilda and Telekinesis
Dr. Sydnee is joined this week by Charlie and Cooper, who are starring in a production of Matilda, and therefore experts in . . . telekineti...
Sawbones: Kratom
Maybe you've heard of kratom, a substance being sold as a 'natural' energy substance. With its alarmingly growing popularity, Dr. Sydnee and...
Sawbones: Hantavirus, Part 2
The recent outbreak of human-communicable Hantavirus on a cruise ship continues to change rapidly and the U.S. continues to lag behind other...
Sawbones: Hantavirus
In what may be our most requested episode of all time, Dr. Sydnee addresses the hantavirus outbreak in the headlines, looks at its history a...
Sawbones: Can Black Widow Venom Cure Diabetes?
After all the listener support, it’s only fair we give back! “We” meaning Dr. Sydnee is giving back to the listeners by answering their medi...