Diagnosis known but other tests are prescribed

[NazakaSyndrome]

All is in the tittle....

At the end of each day, I have many patients who leave with a final diagnosis but with an ongoing analysis. As the day ends, they leave the hospital untreated (so waste time/money for me)

Solution?

[happyscrub]

1, They are trying to test for other symptomps they can treat usually (to make the patient feel better).

2. Those people that leave untreated come back to finish the process. I don't think it's time wasted.

[RobOda]

Only solution is manual control. It is indeed a waste of time and hospital resources, since you want the main diagnosis treated and to kick them out to go home. :)

[Ost22]

Same prob

[Tobijon]

if you cancel the tests often the doctors wont reschedule them

[NazakaSyndrome]

Yes, I do when I have the chance to spot it.
But it would be better for doctors to understand that when the diagnosis is already 100% safe, there is no need to add any more tests.

I hope a patch will fix this problem quickly.

[Kenby Clemente]

I also wish you could treat people and send them home without a final diagnosis in somes cases. Many times it comes to down bacterial vs. viral. In real life, you would just prescribe the antibiotic and be done with it, but you have to wait a very long time in the game for the microbial test to come back.

I don't think they ever order this type of test for minor things like a fever in real life.

I've tried manually selecting the bacterial diagnosis and treating them, but you get in trouble if you're wrong.

[Ost22]

@a drepressed wildebeest But the diagnosis will not change, because it is 100% already. Why assign new tests?

[dorianmode]

Originally posted by Ost22:

@a drepressed wildebeest But the diagnosis will not change, because it is 100% already. Why assign new tests?

Some symptoms cause collapse, others discomfort, some symptoms lead to other symptoms... Diarrhoea leads to thirst leads to dehydration leads to collapse leads to death.
There are a few reasons you might want to continue diagnosis.

The 'certainty' setting in the department management screen controls some of this, but it's not clear exactly what it does. I suspect if it's at 'high' then they will aim to determine more symptoms. Try it on 'low' and see if you prefer the effect?

[FragLeg]

Originally posted by dorianmode:

Originally posted by Ost22:

@a drepressed wildebeest But the diagnosis will not change, because it is 100% already. Why assign new tests?

Some symptoms cause collapse, others discomfort, some symptoms lead to other symptoms... Diarrhoea leads to thirst leads to dehydration leads to collapse leads to death.
There are a few reasons you might want to continue diagnosis.

The 'certainty' setting in the department management screen controls some of this, but it's not clear exactly what it does. I suspect if it's at 'high' then they will aim to determine more symptoms. Try it on 'low' and see if you prefer the effect?

It seems it's not really about the certainty of the diagnosis but the amount of acceptable hidden symptoms. At high certainty no hidden symptoms are allowed to remain.

At medium certainty some hidden symptoms are allowed and in case of multiple options, the diagnosis skill of the doctor is checked to determine if he/she picks the right one.

Of course, I'm just guessing. :-)