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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
English - May 04, 2021 16:00 - 50 minutes - 47 MB - ★★★★★ - 14.4K ratingsComedy Health & Fitness Medicine sawbones comedy history medicine medical history Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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For MaxFunDrive 2021, Sawbones is talking about gross medicine of a different sort. In the United States (and New Zealand) we see a lot of those commercials for prescription medicines with jaunty names and a full minute disclaimer at the end. How they came to be the norm here is a complicated history of bad medicine and the shifting of credence among doctors, patients, and pharmaceutical companies.
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Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers