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Sawbones: The Man Behind the Knick

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This week on the 300th (!) episode of Sawbones, meet William Halstead, the father of American surgery, the man who inspired Cinemax’s The Knick and ... a great advocate for cocaine.

Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers

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Transcript available here

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