Disabled by default, the self-tend option can be enabled on Health | Overview.
They can treat themselves at 70% effectiveness. The speed at which a doctor performs medical operations is shown by the Medical Operation Speed stat.ĭoctors can heal other colonists, guests, prisoners or animals and will prioritize life-threatening wounds and illnesses before tending minor conditions. Similarly, a doctor on consciousness-reducing drugs won't perform as well as a sober doctor. How well a colonist performs in doctoring mainly depends on their medicine skill and medicine used, but their physical well-being plays an important role too: A healthy colonist with a lower medicine skill will perform better at doctoring than a colonist with a missing arm or eye and a higher medicine skill. Colonists incapable of Caring cannot perform doctor tasks.ĭoctoring includes treating injuries and diseases, performing surgical operations, and taking care of patients (entertaining and feeding). The Medical skill is required and is the primary factor for success. 7.1 To-do list for this page (not in order, feel free to contribute):ĭoctoring is a type of work performed by colonists assigned as a doctor in the Work menu.
