My imperfect planning one slaughter-day allowed an elk to beat the crud out of a woodworker as he hauled the beast from a cage out to be slain.
I half expected the worker to bleed to death, he had broken and/or shattered bones from his right shoulder to his right hand, and he had a broken liver. z-health showed he had heavy bleeding for a bit, but my squads of slaughterers got back to his side and ended the elk before it ended the worker. The bleeding appeared to stop almost immediately, even before the fight fully ended.
No one took him to the hospital, which had functioned properly before when a fighter needed a cut arm stitched and cleansed. Instead, despite being listed as doing 'rest', he was conscious and ever so slowly took himself there. Once there, he lapsed into unconsciousness upon a bed, and my diagnoser got to work, and appearring to properly diagnose him.
There were requests for everything from cleaning to surgury, about six requests for treatment in all. And the first one my healthcare workers began was cleaning. I thought 'great' and turned my attention elsewhere for a minute or so.
I soon spot a dwarf hauling stuff while flashing the yellow +. Checking on him, ack, it's my wounded one. He's still wounded, shattered bones, broken bones, presumably laboring just with his left hand. Checking out his personal medical history, somehow he managed to get all his healthcare requests 'removed'. He still has his injuries, his treatment history shows no care given to him other than his diagnosis. Almost a quarter of him's red, but his only complaint was that his grasp's somewhat impaired.
He is absolutely NOT resting, which surely will prevent him from healing much, if ever, if he even can without medical care. So far it's been about two months, he's showing no sign of infection, and his information screen doesn't even show any scars or anything (perhaps because he is not healing?). He has suddenly become faint though, despite the fact that he stopped bleeding some months ago. Perhaps that's the start of an infection? z-health doesn't indicate infection, diagnosis request, or any other treatment, though it says he is faint, grasp impaired, compoundly fractured, in need of setting, and has broken tissue.
I've read about re-injuring dwarves to get them re-diagnosed when an incompetent diagnoser thinks they are fine, is that the probable good answer here? I'm rather loath to do that, but I really, really want this (all!) dwarves in my fort to get injuries tended, I want to see it happen! If he catches an infection, will he automatically be set to need new medical attention? Any other advice for saving and healing this dwarf?
Nice to meet you, Diamondaxe.
Was it your lack of insurance?
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