''Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine'' is a weekly,

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hosted by Dr.

Sydnee McElroy Sydnee McElroy ( ) is an American family medicine physician, assistant professor in family medicine at the Marshall University School of Medicine, and podcast host of ''Sawbones'' and ''Still Buffering''. Career Education and medical practice ...

and her husband, podcaster

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. The show is distributed online by

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. In each episode, Sydnee discusses an element of historical medical practice, while Justin provides a comedic foil. The show normally focuses on antiquated medical practices that are unusual to modern listeners but occasionally covers rare and unusual disorders and occurrences.

History

Background and formation

Sydnee and Justin McElroy had previously worked together on a short podcast series entitled ''Losing the Sheen'', focused on watching ''

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''. The show only lasted nine episodes before the two became tired of it, instead starting a medical podcast based on Sydnee's expertise. While developing the idea for the show, the McElroys decided that it would be irresponsible for them to give medical advice to listeners, even with Sydnee's background. They opted instead to focus on the historical aspects, which had been an interest of Sydnee's. Like other shows by the family, such as ''

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'', ''Sawbones'' is distributed via the

network. ''Sawbones'' has aired over 500 episodes with content on "medical history to uncover all the odd, weird, wrong, dumb and just gross ways we've tried to fix people over the years."

''The Horrifying, Hilarious Road To Modern Medicine''

In June 2018, a book adaptation of the podcast was announced, under the title ''The Sawbones Book: The Horrifying, Hilarious Road To Modern Medicine''. Published by Weldon Owen, the book became available in October 2018. The book showed up in the top 10

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bestsellers for the week ending April 5, 2019. The book was on the New York Times best sellers list in the science category for three weeks. The book was illustrated by Sydnee's sibling, Teylor Smirl.

References

External links

Official website
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History

Background and formation

''The Horrifying, Hilarious Road To Modern Medicine''

See also

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