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[Deathworks]

Hi!

As far as I know, old wounds can only be seen through the health status of the individual dwarf - so you either have to select the dwarf via the health status screen, via the unit screen, or via viewing her.

However, I just checked, and the combat logs are also included in the gamelog.txt file. So, if you searched for the attack damaging the lip in that txt file, you should be able to find the name of the dwarf.

As for the cat bringing the dead vermin, that means the patient is the cat's owner. Cats will bring dead vermin to either their owner and/or the correct refuse stockpile. So, having a stockpile accepting the remains should help at least a little bit. As for any problems for the patients' health, I have not had any problems with that, even though my hospital was already drowning in blood like the rest of the fortress when I had those patients lie a year there, waiting to be diagnosed.

On the other hand, people are telling horrible stories about dwarves dying from infections (^_^;;

Deathworks

[Skorpion]

It's awesome. My herbalist got trolled while gathering berries, and got a string of red injuries. I was ecstatic when he was walking around with them bound.

[BurnedToast]

So wait, your patients are actually fully recovering?

I've never had a patient fully recover. Coming on 15 years now and my first injured dwarf still has yellow wounds on his leg and head and still has the sutures in (the bandages eventually fell off though). Everyone else is similar - they keep some of the dressings and never completely heal (even though the preferences screen lists scars instead of wounds now).

It's not a big deal for most dwarves since they still run around working and fighting and whatnot, but one of my dwarves thinks his foot is still smashed and he can't walk so he rests all day even though his preferences screen has listed the wound as a scar rather then an injury for a decade. Also the doctor never gave him crutches, I don't know why, he just lays there forever.

[tastypaste]

Almost all of my dwarfs who have been in the hospital have fully recovered. Two have been there for three years, resting. Everyone else has healed and gone back to work.

[Cespinarve]

Urist McSurgeon: Oh look, there seems to be rotting on this brain! Best to amputate...

Giant desert scorpion stings cause necrosis of the brain and nervous system. I'd be amused to see what sort of surgery would be prescribed for that...

Its the closest thing to a neurotoxin that we have, and it kills within hours in adventure mode in the arena. Without an antidote, even a megabeast who gets injected with it is going to be dead soon.

I had to forbid Giant Scorpion stings after Urist McGlaDOS flooded the fort with a deadly neurotoxin, to prevent her from flooding the fortress with a deadly neurotoxin.

[Jimmy]

Wow, necro.

[Bronze Dog]

Might as well take advantage of it. (Oh, and M*A*S*H nicknames win the thread.)

Read various mentions of modded doctor training workshops, including one here. How exactly do they work out? Using corpses as raw materials to practice surgery?

Of course, I assume some less ambitious models just use the skill to turn a blank input into a blank output or something like that.

[Heavenfall]

All my guys who were taken to the hospital fully recovered (except a couple of fingers/toes that stay red forevva), even with no soap.

But when they all got dragged in there after the latest ambush, it wasn't really a case of "all doctors to the OR". Rather, the 6 or so doctors (I had noone with even minor skill, so I let em all in) would just casually wander in and bandage things. Seems like what the wounded did most in the hospital, including the time when they were really wounded, was laying in the bed someone dragged them to.

Still, it was amazing to see a guy with red upper left leg, lower left leg, left lung, one hand, and one hand brown, recover almost completely.

Apparently, yellow damage is just minor now, so once they were all down to yellow, even with red fingers/toes, they were all dancing around the barracks again.
Oh, those colours are with mayday. No idea what colour they would be in normal colours.txt,

[afoninv]

Read various mentions of modded doctor training workshops, including one here. How exactly do they work out? Using corpses as raw materials to practice surgery?

Of course, I assume some less ambitious models just use the skill to turn a blank input into a blank output or something like that.

Well, for example Deon's fantastic Genesis mod which, above all other great features, has a special Anathomical Theater building. There it takes a thread to train suturing, a cloth to train wound dressing or bone setting, a crutch to train crutchwalking, or a large dagger to train surgery (reagents preserved).

[Cespinarve]

Wow, necro.

Yeah, sorry about that, but i had to go for the Portal joke. No one found it funny, but i felt I had to try. The idea of a dwarven GlaDOS intrigues me.

[Urist McOverlord]

Yeah, sorry about that, but i had to go for the Portal joke. No one found it funny, but i felt I had to try. The idea of a dwarven GlaDOS intrigues me.

I laughed.

[Jimmy]

Yeah, sorry about that, but i had to go for the Portal joke. No one found it funny, but i felt I had to try. The idea of a dwarven GlaDOS intrigues me.

I laughed.

The *Dwarven Sugar Roast* is a lie.

[Daetrin]

"We've both said a lot of things you're going to regret. But I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster."

That actually sounds like something a player might say to a useless noble. Or an elf.

[Richards]

I was not expecting to see each injured dwarf with a complete medical record, with date of procedure *and* name of clinician.  Cool stuff!

Where exactly is this information?

[Chattox]

I really like the health system at the moment, but the gypsum plaster bug annoys me to no end.

Also the thing where a dwarf with 4 compound fractures will get up and walk around as if nothing's wrong, too.

Once those are fixed, it will be incredible.