Project Hospital

Project Hospital

Bedside Examinations (NO DLCs Version)
Butch  [developer] Aug 11, 2020 @ 4:27pm
Update 11
Update 11

- The following Exams can no longer be done in the Trauma Center:

- Biopsy Sampling
- PCR Sampling
- Serology Sampling
- Stool Analysis Sampling
- Urine Analysis Sampling

The idea is that Trauma Centers should be rooms where critical patients are quickly stabilized and then transferred away. Before this update, too many patients were spending a very long time in Trauma centers while ER doctors were attempting to completely diagnosis these patients from these rooms.

- The following Exams can no longer be ordered in a clinic. Patients must be hospitalized for them to be ordered:

- Biopsy Sampling
- PCR Sampling
- Serology Sampling
- Stool Analysis Sampling (except Internal Medicine patients)
- Microscopic Sampling (except Neurology patients)
- CBC (Complete Blood Count) Sampling

This simulates the workup of patients in real life hospitals. Generally speaking, if a doctor is doing blood cultures, PCR tests or taking a biopsy sample; the patient is likely to be sick. These patients in a real life scenario would be hospitalized when these kinds of tests are ordered. It might be annoying for players who only want to play clinics and not have to deal with hospitalization but this is a "design" choice on my part. It's both realistic and eases a lot of the workload on your clinics and labs. Otherwise clinic patients who require lots of blood work keep bouncing back and forth between their clinic doctors and waiting outside labs.

- Changed the "No clear diagnosis!" notification text. When a patient cannot do anymore exams at a clinic office, you will be notified that you must hospitalize the patient in order for you to continue ordering exams. This should clear up some confusion as to why some exams are grayed out.

- Gastroscopy can now be done at the Internal Medicine department at the Special Procedures room
Last edited by Butch; Aug 12, 2020 @ 1:48am