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[Arek]

So
iam playing fortress defense mod, and got attacked by group of ferric elves. Two dwarves suffered multiple non-lethal injuries, and were placed in hospital. The docs were slowly fixing them up, but something apparently went wrong, because they had both went faint and later pale, before i received message they both succumbed to infection. At the same time.
But as far as i know, none of their wounds was infected. So when does it come from? A corpse that is on bottom of my water tank? The arrows they got stucked inside? Soap was used for theirs cleaning...

Also, somewhat later my militia commander got wounded in fight with goblins. 3 broken bones, each in different limb. Nothing serious. Other dwarves brought him into hospital and then he got in some weird repetition. They normally feed and water him, and occasionally clean him. But they diagnose him like every other day, but never start a real treatment. Have someone encountered this?

[Grumbledwarfskin]

I think they have to diagnose a patient before they do anything else if it's been a while since the patient was diagnosed. So it's important to make sure your doctors don't have other labors enabled, or they'll diagnose a patient, take a hauling job, and won't be able to treat the patient when they get back around to medical duty.

[Arek]

Doctors have all medical labours enabled, and nothing else, except a burial. Well, but one doctor come, make diagnosis and as he walks away, he meets another doctor who's going to make another diagnosis on the same patient.

[khearn]

Doctors have all medical labours enabled, and nothing else, except a burial.

Never go to a doctor that moonlights as an undertaker.

[CapnUrist]

I can't comment on the infections, but as to the repeating diagnoses, I had that happening with two dwarves simultaneously, both also with multiple limb fractures, on a previous fortress. I believe they'd been injured in a fall, and the child in particular was diagnosed nearly every other day for over a month, and no less than 50 times over a year without any treatment.

I have no idea what caused it; the CMD had no labor but Diagnosis enabled, and simply bounced back and forth between the two. The worst part was there were other dwarves with minor injuries that weren't getting treatment because the doctor was too busy studying the previously mentioned pair to pay any attention to them.