"Preparing for surgery"

[Vuyek]

Any department.
So I have 3 docs ONLY doing ONLY surgery: one doing surgery, one doing anesthesia, one doing assistant surgeon.

They are stuck with the dreaded "Preparing for surgery" until I manually unset their task and re-do their task. THEN then get assigned to an already waiting patient who will die soon without surgery.

I think there should not be a "Preparing for surgery" task for a doctor - it should always be for a specific patient.

Seems like a bug.

[Vuyek]

I guess you can roleplay as a hospital manager, who has to literally check up on his doctors....... like a manager in real life has to check up on his employess.

[Vuyek]

also also

I just saw a trauma dept perform a surgery, and the surgery performed number on their card stays at ZERO.

This explains why my surgeon teams have 0 or 1 surgeries on their stat cards, when I know for sure that surgeries are performed en masse in my insanely busy hospital.

Edit: ah, it is not total surgeries. it is "previous day" surgeries. silly.

[Bolyn]

They do Preparing for surgery because while waiting a higher priority patient could show up and they'd pick that one instead.
For a surgery to occur 7 people need to be ready; 3 doctors (sometimes just 2), 2 surgery nurses, 1 transport nurse and 1 patient who must be in bed. If anyone of those wanders off fulfilling needs the surgery is delayed

[Vuyek]

ahh ok, that makes sense.

BUT...... this "preparing for surgery" was changed IMMEDIATELY to "preparing for surgery on <patient name>". once changed all surgery team doctors to "take care of patients" and then changed them all back to surgery tasks.

FYI, all my surgery teams ONLY do surgery - doctors and nurses do ONLY surgeries. Separate team does patient care.

[Bolyn]

You may have a bottleneck somewhere. The next time the seem stuck at Preparing for surgery, pause and check what those 3 doctors and 2 surgery nurses are currently doing. If they're all just waiting, check on the patient. Mouse over the surgery treatment to see what it says at the bottom; Scheduled, waiting for surgery team. Scheduled, waiting for transport to treatment or something similar.
In my experience busy transport nurses are usually the problem

There are some small things you can do to try to streamline the surgery
Only allow the surgery staff to do surgery, like you've done. It's specially important to never let the surgery nurses do patient transfers. Have multiple surgery rooms available. I like having an extra surgery nurse since after a surgery is finished one nurse stays behind waiting with the patient. Nurse number 3 can then join up with the team and immediately start another surgery in a second room.
I just recently moved out my cardiology surgery doctors and nurses to their own room, right next door to the surgery. I also gave them a toilet patients can't reach and have the common room really close. They now refill their needs really fast and are instantly on call.

[Vuyek]

"It's specially important to never let the surgery nurses do patient transfers. "

haha, r u craaaaayzzeeeee LOL (apologies, haha).

there are 2-3 nurses per dept. who only do transport. they are custom made, with rocket, clean feet and never rest ("negative" perk LOL)

"I also gave them a toilet patients can't reach"

yeah I do that trick too. works especially great for pharmacy peeps LOL

[Endicott]

Speaking of surgeries, Internal Medicine now only needs one doctor and a nurse to transport and that's it. I am wondering is it worth even having two doctors in the On Call room?