The Sawbones Book, Justin McElroy
The Sawbones Book, Justin McElroy
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The Sawbones Book
The Horrifying, Hilarious Road to Modern Medicine

Author: Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy

Narrator: Justin McElroy, Dr. Sydnee McElroy

Unabridged: 6 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/13/2018

Categories: Nonfiction, Humor

Synopsis

A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came to be!Wondering whether eating powdered mummies might be just the thing to cure your ills? Tempted by those vintage ads suggesting you wear radioactive underpants for virility? Ever considered drilling a hole in your head to deal with those pesky headaches? Probably not. But for thousands of years, people have done things like this—and things that make radioactive underpants seem downright sensible! In their hit podcast, Sawbones, Sydnee and Justin McElroy breakdown the weird and wonderful way we got to modern healthcare. And some of the terrifying detours along the way.Every week, Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin amaze, amuse, and gross out (depending on the week) hundreds of thousands of avid listeners to their podcast, Sawbones. Consistently rated a top podcast on iTunes, with over 15 million total downloads, this rollicking journey through thousands of years of medical mishaps and miracles is not only hilarious but downright educational. While you may never even consider applying boiled weasel to your forehead (once the height of sophistication when it came to headache cures), you will almost certainly face some questionable medical advice in your everyday life (we’re looking at you, raw water!) and be better able to figure out if this is a miracle cure (it’s not) or a scam.

About Justin McElroy

Justin McElroy is a 15-year journalism veteran with two awards from the Ohio Associated Press for business writing. He has served as the managing editor of AOL’s Joystiq and Vox Media’s Polygon (of which he’s also a founder).

About Dr. Sydnee McElroy

Sydnee McElroy has a BS in biology (2005) and an MD (2009) from Marshall University. She currently is a practicing licensed family physician and an assistant professor of medical education with Marshall.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Danielle on November 04, 2018

The content of this book is great. Sydnee and Justin's contrasting takes on Kellogg was one of the funniest things I've ever read, and Teylor's art is wonderful. But I had bought this book to give to my brother, a doctor, as a Christmas gift, and I just can't do it - not because the book is so good......more

Goodreads review by Ross on October 08, 2021

Sawbones is one of my favorite podcasts, and Dr. Sydnee McElroy and the hilarious Justin McElroy are delightful guides through the wacky world of medical history. The podcast explores a different topic in depth each week, but this compendium volume is a great way to either get your feet wet or to re......more

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on December 17, 2018

People's creativity is shown in special medical agony options to deteriorate the state of health. Please note that I have put the original German text to the end of this review. Just if you might be interested. In the retrospective, many things are unbelievable and it is difficult to gauge the sufferi......more

Goodreads review by Trin on November 21, 2018

I love Justin and Sydnee, but as others have pointed out, this book is poorly proofed and copy edited to an embarrassing, painful degree. Text is transposed and repeated. Words are missing, punctuation is randomly placed--pretty much every typographical error you can imagine is present here, on almo......more

Goodreads review by Mara on October 16, 2021

3.5 stars - I absolutely love the Sawbones podcast, so it was really fun having a lot of their "greatest hit" topics in one book. I'm not sure there was a ton of new ground covered, but I think this would make a great gift and it was a good version of what it was.......more

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