Why are patients dying?

[VoodooKing]

So lightbulb head guy gets his head replaced and cured. Then the skull sign appears and shows his dying. How do I stop this? Is there something I need to upgrade?

[CryonicSuspension]

This game gives people cancer? XD

[ShadowDragon34]

unless his treatment percentage was 100% when he went for treatment then he has a chance to die..you can up the percentages with better staff

[Donna Pinciotti]

I thought I had a killer nurse at one point, she killed 3 in the space of 5 mins, and she was a good senior nurse.

[GhostStryker]

Yeah it's annoying when you have 85% cure rate and they die

[Advendra]

Every illness has treatment/cure percentage, you can see the cure chance by pressing number 3 (illness menu).

This chance will increase by some things:

Provide more diagnostic rooms to increase illness identification which will ensure you get the correct treatment.

With trained doctor/nurse/staff, you will also increase the chance of patient cure and also reduce the time of patient's health dropping untill zero (means dead). So, train your staff, it is much cheaper than hiring a senior staff.

Research: by doing research, you can research upgrade for rooms to increase room initial cure chance percentage.

That's it for now.

[Tizferatu]

Originally posted by GhostStryker:

Yeah it's annoying when you have 85% cure rate and they die

Don't take the 85% as a straight 85%, it isn't. It's an estimate. But even if it weren't, probability is a thing.

Meaning even at 85% success it's still entirely possible to fail 5/10 times or even (rarely) 10/10 times.

Percentages don't work well with low sample sizes. Do a couple thousand though and it should be pretty close to the estimated percentage. Just sucks for you if you're in the probability range that gets all the failures up front >.>

[Laustin Spayce]

Sometimes you'll have a highly qualified member of staff who is just awful at administering treatment. I had one senior nurse kill 4/5 people in an emergency with Hurty Leg, that nurse is no longer working the fracture ward! Some of your staff will just be incompetent!

[Jack]

For me the chance of dying is quite low since I always hire staff with good skills :D