Sawbones (Fallout 3)

Sawbones is a Mister Gutsy doctor in the Citadel B ring $$

Background
Sawbones is a Mister Gutsy field medic model that provides medical assistance to the Brotherhood of Steel and has an "almost encyclopedic knowledge of surgery." Seventeen years ago, a generator in the Citadel overloaded, causing the limiters placed on Sawbones' neural pathways to short out. As a result, Sawbones developed intelligence beyond the scope of its programming. Due to further sustained damage, the pathways that govern its medical functions were damaged, resulting in a malfunction that unintentionally causes harm to patients.

Due to the nature of its model type, Sawbones is incapable of harming patients through intentional action. Sawbones expresses that the malfunction is "the only thing that brings [it] any measure of joy," finding humans to have "disgusting fleshy bodies" that it is a slave to repair. Though Sawbones' neural pathways were damaged, its behavior limiters were not, preventing it from acting independently.

Sawbones has recently began experimenting with poetry on the Citadel Medical terminal. On the terminal, a header message from Paladin Glade can be read, in which he mentions that he hacked Sawbones' terminal again and that he would "delete all [its] stupid robot poetry" if it didn't change the password. In the poetry labeled, "Hovering Contemplatively, a Poem," Sawbones writes: "Brotherhood of Steel blood is red, ionic medical pulse beams are blue, Steel is better than flesh, and artificial intelligence sub-processors are too."

Appearances
Sawbones appears $$

Behind the scenes
Sawbones' line "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" is the same line spoken by the Emergency Medical Hologram from Star Trek: Voyager.