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[gorge]

My problem is 2 dwarves, each with a broken 4th finger/smashed open. 

My 31.25 fortress is 4 years old.  I've got a hospital which has been used in prior years and is currently being successfully used by a different dwarf with a different injury who walked himself to the hospital.  The dwarves with the broken fingers were each in the military and were injured during 2 separate ambushes.  After their injury they have switched to "No Job" and haven't moved since. 
Here are the things I have tried to do to them:
kick them from the military
Create a new military squad with only them in it
give them every labor
give them no labors
assign them to a burrow
assign them to no burrows
put them in the military and order them to move to a location (this does change their job to "Station" but they still don't move)
stop and restart the game
Release a goblin right next to them (This proved that they're just lazy bastards because they ran from the goblin just fine, but stopped moving again once it was dead)

It seems like their grievous finger injury is enough to keep them from moving but not enough to trigger a "Recover Wounded" job.  The dwarf who's been in this state longest is dehydrated and is not triggering "Give Water" jobs (I'm sure because the rest of the dwarves are like "It's only your finger!.  Go get your own damn water".)

Other than the obvious "Magma" solution which would be complex with them sitting in my main entrance hallway and the second best solution of "Drop the roof on them", Any other suggestions?

They're not important dwarves so letting them die as punishment for being stupid is acceptable and a fair warning to any others that might try to use a minor finger injury as an excuse to be lazy.  But I'd like to know how to handle this if it happens to an important dwarf. 

Thanks for any advice you can provide.

[Deimos56]

You could (carefully) use water to (hopefully) push them towards food and drink? Or possibly to a state where they'll realize they're injured and act appropriately?

Although it would be a very... random... endeavor, since if I recall, water doesn't push things in any particular direction. But it couldn't hurt?

[Blade Master Model 42]

Perhaps build a spear trap under each of them, hook it to a mechanism, and pull the lever? Hopefully, it gives them a minor injury, and they go to the hospital.

Just an idea, don't know if it'd work...

[MaximumZero]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

[Argonnek]

Angrily yell profanity at your screen? Release goblins near them until they run off of a cliff? Magma?

[randyshipp]

I'll be watching this thread carefully for any tips.  I have one of my better marksdwarves (though who knows how good he'll be after he recovers from his injuries, assuming he does) doing EXACTLY the same thing, and I've tried all the things you have.  Not being able to manually assign tasks like Recover Wounded is silly, given all the other micromanagement in the game.

[randyshipp]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

I just built a stonefall trap near my stalled dwarf, but I see not that you can't connect that trap to a lever.  How can you "trigger" it?

[khearn]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

+1
This should knock the dwarf unconsious so another dwarf can carry him to the hospital for treatment.

[MaximumZero]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

I just built a stonefall trap near my stalled dwarf, but I see not that you can't connect that trap to a lever.  How can you "trigger" it?

Release a goblin right next to them (This proved that they're just lazy bastards because they ran from the goblin just fine, but stopped moving again once it was dead)

Catch another gobbo, release it right next to the trap.

[Flying Dice]

Basically, do anything you can to injure them enough for medical treatment. Spear trap, cavein, trap them with berserk elves, etc.

[khearn]

Build a support near the dwarf and build a support tile on top of it (probably need to build a temporary stair). link the support to a lever and pull the lever. The floor tile will fall and be a cave in, causing dust which will knock your dwarf unconscious. This requires that the dwarf be in a place where you have the headroom to build it, like being outside or in a 2 z-level tall room. If he's indoors, you can just channel out around a single space in a room above him (but not so that it drops right on top of him!).

[Naryar]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

Stonefall traps don't make dust. You're talking about cave-in traps.

[Satarus]

I've had problems like that.  What you need is to make sure you have all medical professions enabled somewhere.  Not necessarily the same dwarf.  If he has a broken bone in a finger, he could be waiting for a bone doctor to set it in a splint. 

[MaximumZero]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

Stonefall traps don't make dust. You're talking about cave-in traps.

I stand corrected.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Trigger a stonefall trap near them? Not on them, obviously, but the tossing about by dust may...encourage them to seek medical attention.

I just built a stonefall trap near my stalled dwarf, but I see not that you can't connect that trap to a lever.  How can you "trigger" it?

I think he meant cave-in. It causes stones to fall but is not a stone-fall trap.