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[Aqizzar]

I am a prophet.

The broken-armed dwarf understood that he needed to run off to the hospital zone properly, but care never came, because I'm still working on that. Poor little buddy.

"Come quickly Dr. Urist, his bones need setting!"
"Huh, wuzzat?  Sorry, but these trade goods simply must reach the depot."

Not that it was much of a prediction.  Always bet on the unthinking callousness of dwarves.

[Neonivek]

Actually I think the EXACT reason the Dwarf didn't recieve help is because Toady didn't program in the actual "Care" portion of the Healthcare system

[Shurikane]

Can you imagine the medic?

He doesn't care about anything anymore.

...


"Dr. Urist, why are you moving trade goods instead of helping our wounded comrade?"
"Because FUCK YOU!"

[Duke 2.0]

 "Children, come close. Listen and heed my sage advice: Never join an expedition whose name is 'The Tests of Toad.' We have had only one dwarf return from such a place, and he told stories of male dwarves giving birth and bodies breaking down for no reason and metals vaporizing onto our very bodies."

[Warlord255]

Can you imagine the medic?

He doesn't care about anything anymore.

...


"Dr. Urist, why are you moving trade goods instead of helping our wounded comrade?"
"Because FUCK YOU!"

"WHAT'S THE POINT, MAN? WHAT'S THE FUCKING POINT?!"

[Neoskel]

Dude, dwarven doctors would probably all be like House.

[Mel_Vixen]

All like house? Heck i want some dwarven docs, eventhought hes an asshole hes a damn good doc and i love the sarcasm.

[umiman]

Nah, if anything, they'd be like the stars of the Saw movies.

[Soor]

A couple of questions ...

Regarding melting dust, I assume this takes into account both melting and ignition point of the material? If so, i there a modifier for dust ignition point, the way some stuff ignites at a lower point if avg particle size is below is below a certain value? I'm thinking in the context of dropping flour bombs on enemies here.

Regarding damage from vapours, abstract mucous membranes and such with thermal conductivity, so that lungs (and eyes) get badly damaged by breathing water vapour superheated by mamga?

[Shurikane]

Dude, dwarven doctors would probably all be like House.

Urist McDoctor cancels Give Water: It's not Lupus.

[Kishmond]

He's now surrounded by many skilled medical professionals.

Does this mean that medical care will have its own skill now?

[Exponent]

Does this mean that medical care will have its own skill now?

From the other stickied thread:

The current idea is to allow the chief doctor to be appointed by you.  The others are treated like any other profession -- I'm going with the historical model that surgeons/etc. didn't enjoy a special place in society for the time being, so you can just turn the professions off and on.  However, I'm considering starting up a notion of "knowledge" as opposed to skill, so that picking some random guy to perform surgery through trial and error might not be the best idea.  However, if I don't get to that, then it'll be just like starting up a new blacksmith from scratch (which is equally silly).

"Healthcare" is gone -- there are currently 7 new labor settings, 5 unit types, and 6 skills.  I've grouped the entire vpl list into 15 sections to make it easier to mess with (I'm aware of further changes people want there, but I can't do it all now).

The chief doctor wouldn't be necessary but would allow you to get a good overview of your wounded dwarves (as the bookkeeper does with stocks).  Other abilities will depend on how it plays out (things like prioritization or whatever).

As for tools, the default would be to handle it like other jobs, which would leave all these concerns about scalpel edges for later.  The items surely coming in are things like splints, traction benches, plaster, plaster casts, and then the use of thread/cloth for sutures and bandages.  I'm not going to handle restacking right now, but I might do amounts within a single object to handled the medical use of thread/cloth.  That might save some headaches versus turning cloth into 10 or 100 bandage items to scatter around, although it implies headaches of its own.  Not 100% clear yet.  I might do surgical equipment, but it might be early.  I kind of want to think about all the other jobs when I do that.

[Hectonkhyres]

Urist McDoctor cancels Give Water: It's not Lupus.

In Dwarf Fortress, Lupus is another word for Lycanthropy.

Urist McDoctor cancels Give Water: Interrupted by Werewolf.
Urist McDoctor has been struck down.

[dei]

I like the ideas of adventurer groups and adventurer houses and such. Sounds like something that would get me back into Dwarf Fortress.

[ToonyMan]

I like to collect junk in Roguelikes, but in DF it doesn't work in adventurer mode.  Everything just resets.   



We need adventurer houses!

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I must dedicate one of my rooms to just heads of every elf in that world.