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[el Indio]

I created a doctor dwarf before embark, and have assigned them as the chief medical dwarf.  However, they won't perform diagnosis on patients, I tried clicking the 'specialisation' button but that didn't work, and I don't know how to enable diagnosis on another dwarf.  So how do I get the hospital working?

[delphonso]

Have you set up a hospital zone?

I had a similar issue, where one dwarf sat for ages to be checked by my original medical dwarf, but was only checked after I switched to a recent migrant.

[chaoticag]

For whatever reason, setting up a work detail for medical professionals then assigning all doctors to it seems to do the trick, just make sure to exclude rescuing and patient care

[el Indio]

I figured out what was wrong.  I had to assign a dwarf to the hospital zone, there is a little shield icon with a magnifying glass that says "set details for the assigned location".  Once my dwarf was set as a diagnostician she came straight away to the patient, then different dwarfs came to dress wounds without any input from me at all.  However, the set details menu has positions for Doctor, Diagnostician, Bone Doctor and Surgeon, and a dwarf can only be assigned to one role at a time.  I tried switching my dwarf between the different roles but the patient died, was waiting for immobilization.  I guess on next embark I spread out the health skills between different dwarfs, as a single dwarf with all the skills is sub-optimal?

As for setting up a work detail, I don't know what that is.  I'm having a hard time finding the menus I need (such as the food menu, so I can forbid plump helmets from being used in cooking for example).

[el Indio]

After a few times of 'quit without saving' to go back to before the dwarf died, I figured out how to set up a work detail, and a custom healthcare work detail for the medical dwarf, along with assigning them to the hospital as diagnoser, got the injured dwarf the help they needed.  They got out of bed and went socialising, then promptly dropped dead anyway, probably from blood loss I guess.

I think without a work detail I would have needed 4 seperate dwarfs to assign to the various positions in the hospital, to ensure those jobs were carried out?  I only had a single dwarf (out of 70) with any health skills at all so didn't test that.