| If ever I need the old sawbones, pick me one with a steady hand and a good patient-survival ratio and I won't care if he talks in grunts. |
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| I wondered just how much use it would be having this sawbones examining her. |
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| Doyle had a reasonably distinguished career as a sawbones but made his mark as creator of arguably the world's best-known fictional detective. |
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| The mobile sawbones are looking for volunteers to sign on for nine to 12 months helping the sick in such unpredictable places as Afghanistan. |
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| He had been troubled by a left inguinal hernia in his lower abdomen, so he booked a date with the sawbones to go under the knife and get it fixed. |
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| Rob, who graduated 117th in his class at medical school, is an in-house sawbones with a penthouse suite, a gambling habit, and an insufferable smirk. |
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| He did not criticise his sawbones colleagues, but he thought his own countenance showed that the needle worked better than the knife. |
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| Sawbones they were, and sawbones they will become once again. |
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| The emperor's daughter has been born with a terrible affliction, to which palace sawbones have appended the acronym SARS—or, to give it its full name, Severe Atypical Reeking Syndrome. |
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