sawbones

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“Put the sawbones like me out of business.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2012

Small wonder that they have been dubbed "sawbones," or that they have always hated the unpleasant word.

From Time Magazine Archive

What pricked him on from apprenticeship under a toping village sawbones to postgraduate work at the State of Winnemac's great Sears-Roebuckian university was an itching to learn, to know, to do.

From Time Magazine Archive

Amid such scenes, sawbones of 16 nations got together last week for their first international meeting since before the war.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I say, Fanshawe, there's a job for you at last, my festive sawbones."

From The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War by Hodgson, Edward S.