sawbones

sawbones

old-fashioned slang A medical doctor. Dr. Thompson is a professor of literature, not some sawbones. That old sawbones is always trying to get you onto some medication or another. You need rest and relaxation, that's all.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

sawbones

n. a doctor. (Folksy. Referring to someone who amputates limbs.) Call the sawbones. This is an emergency.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • shuttle from (someone) to (someone else)
  • medico
  • IANAD
  • turn (someone's) crank
  • turn onto
  • turn onto (someone or something)
  • turn onto someone/something
  • year in, (and) year out
  • year in, year out
  • woman of letters
References in periodicals archive
A total of 24 synthetic humerus sawbones #3404 were randomly divided into three groups ( n = 8), and anteromedial, anterolateral, and posterior fracture models of AO classification of 12-C3 were created.
Biomechanical Study of the Fixation Strength of Anteromedial Plating for Humeral Shaft Fractures
BEATINGS: Slaves were often treated brutally on their journey across the ocean: SAWBONES: A medical kit like one used on a slaver
Slave ship horrors; Maritime Tales by Stephen Guy from Merseyside Maritime Museum
It was not until the publication of his last novel, Sawbones Memorial (1974), that he really regained his stride.
As for Sinclair Ross
from the farcical Harvard Medical School (whose students didn't even need a high school diploma--they admitted all paying candidates--and whose graduates were often illiterate sawbones).
He accepted-and contested-the universe
He is, however, doing his best in enforced circumstances to appease his sawbones and cut back.
British Guild of Beer Writers' Best Regional Writer; pubs at the bar..
Here Tony Curtis stars as Waldo Demara, whose impersonations include that of a naval surgeon on board HMCS Cayuga (The story appeared in this magazine Volume 3 Issue 5 as "The Case of the Spurious Sawbones").
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'If it's a break at all, it's a very small one,' said the sawbones.
I've just got to hand it to those NHS staff
In fact, one of his jobs involves assisting the Wright sales force with "sawbones demos" in which he demonstrates the implant procedure on foam : bones.
The machinery of life: between physics and biology lies a rift in language that doctors and engineers must cross before they heal the sick
The sawbones removed the shard of wood mumbling under his breath all the while about crazy gun guys.
The misadventures of Pete Haggins
Tubas!" ordered Rosa, but Delia's sawbones, Ebon Axel, defiled Edin's red, arty, timid, dev-loved lobo-knowers as ornate, tan Rosa's rekilned, dim, detonable bard, snide Derek, cussed a general ...
The HeptCat's other trick
So maybe the next time the local sawbones hit wineries up for free auction wine, you tell 'em to take a hike.
Wise & otherwise
Not bad for a business that hardly existed 150 years ago, when deaths were handled by families, the church, or the local sawbones.
The LAST THING you want to do
Pacific Research's "Sawbones" catalog highlights an assorted number of products designed to assist orthopedic surgeons improve their surgical skills outside the operating room.
NEW PRODUCTS
And it's staffed by a bunch of mentally deranged losers that include intense action man Reich (Neal McDonough), religious nutter Toffler (Jeremy Davies), boozed up sawbones Knox (Stephen Spinella), and permanently stoned cook Cleaves (David Arquette).
Film Reviews: Cult camp triumph seen heading up mainstream; Mike Davies reviews the new cinema releases
Harry Fine, old-line house-call family sawbones arrives, is brought up to date and makes a cursory physical examination.
LAB NOTES: Experiments in chemistry and jazz