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Would it surprise you to learn that people with too much money are flocking to “IV bars” and paying hundreds of dollars for intravenous cocktails of vitamins that are supposed to treat every malady under the sun but do absolutely nothing except risk serious infection?
… It probably doesn’t surprise you, does it? Yeah, us neither. God, that’s depressing. Anyway, here’s a podcast.
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Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers
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Dr. Sydnee McElroy and her husband Justin welcome you to Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine. Every Friday, they dig through the annals of medical history to uncover all the odd, weird, wrong, dumb and just gross ways we’ve tried to fix people over the years. Educational? You bet! Fun? We hope!
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