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Episode 416
We’re back with Sawbones Medical Questions! Justin acts as stand-in for the listeners while Dr. Sydnee answers questions about tall people getting COVID, eye goop, nose goop, labor organizing in the …
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Monkeypox
Episode 415
You may be worried we’re headed into another global health crisis in the form of Monkeypox. But it’s not new, and we already know quite a bit about it. Dr. Sydnee explains what it is, how to treat it…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
History of Abortion
Episode 414
With the recent news about Roe v. Wade, it’s important to talk about the history of abortion in the United States. The right to autonomy over one’s own body in regard to medical care is one of the ba…
Published on 3 years, 6 months ago
Infant Formula
Episode 413
The United States is currently in a dire formula shortage, and people are taking to the internet to propose some less than ideal solutions. Dr. Sydnee talks about the origins of how formula came abou…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Harry Beno: The Poison King
Episode 412
Harry Beno (not BEAN-o) one day walked into a barn hungry for biscuits and emerged the poison king. Believing himself immune to strychnine, Beno took to eating poison for an audience. From there his …
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Testicle Tanning
Episode 411
Some people believe that men in the world are getting softer and masculinity is under attack. But not to worry, there’s a solution: tanning your . . . nethers. Although the idea of exposing your soft…
Published on 3 years, 7 months ago
Cereal
Episode 410
Remember when the Cheerios box said it would lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease? Well, it doesn’t say that anymore because cereal isn’t medicine. But this is just one example in a long histo…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
The World of Warcraft Plague and COVID
Episode 409
A very long time ago, in 2019, we talked about the Corrupted Blood plague, a pandemic within the World of Warcraft. How it affected the digital world was used as a model for how people might behave d…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Bach's Flower Remedies
Episode 408
In the mid-20th century, Dr. Edward Bach developed a series of diluted tinctures from ingredients of the natural world to combat negative emotions, and by extension, disease. Bach supplied that these…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago
Food Dye and Behavior
Episode 407
Do artificially colored food dyes make your kids behave badly? This sounds like it could be true, and is certainly alluring to parents as an easy fix. But are they actually related? In the 1940s, Dr.…
Published on 3 years, 8 months ago