Occupation Upgrade (Doctor Job?)

[SSapphira]

A small idea, probably been talked about before but I can't seem to find it if it has but what about a Doctor line for the Occupational Upgrade? So we have someone dedicated to taking care of people? Just a small thing I wanted to leave here.  

Maybe like Medical Assistant, Nurse, Doctor, etc.

[Entrails]

+1

[ScottFree]

Seems like a natural inclusion from the stats and medbay room

[Saturnus]

I also feel like this is an obvious oversight.

[blash365]

I dont think, its an oversight, but more of a foresight that one of the upcoming content updates will include changes to the medbay logic, new medical devices, new medicine, new illnesses and ... wait for it ... a doctor profession.

[Zarquan]

I bet they will add a doctor or caretaker job of some kind.  The only hazard is that they will usually have nothing to do associated with their job, so maybe they should have duties other than healing, like maybe stress management and disinfecting.

[SkunkMaster]

2 hours ago, Zarquan said:

I bet they will add a doctor or caretaker job of some kind.  The only hazard is that they will usually have nothing to do associated with their job, so maybe they should have duties other than healing, like maybe stress management and disinfecting.

They used to be the ones producing the medicine ( with increase to medicine production speed, if i recall correctly).

My observation at the moment is that no doctor = no one saves out-of-combat dupes, and therefor dupes who fall unconscious die instead of being saved. Literally no dupe gives a **** about the other dupes to give them some first-aid.

dupes with only caretaker assigned stand idle.

Cases where this is relevant: Dupes who get scolded till they become incapacitated. This has happened at least 10 times when dupes where working in my oxygen pyramid....

[Gooblender]

Or the doctor can run stress management/therapy sessions freeing of the energy requirement of the massage bed. You could also then have further specialisation end paths such as surgeon (for physical injuries), psychiatrist for behaviour disorders (treatment of phobias and stress management/late game mitigation of negative traits) and immunologist (for treating diseases and illnesses and synthesising cures). Each of these could have specialised rooms and equipment (operating theatre, therapy room, quarantine lab night need a gas tight airlock). I feel this has a lot of potential scope. To compensate you could have greater variety of ailments to treat. This could include psychological ailments crated by constant high stress situations (such as OCD (becoming obsessive about a task such as disinfecting) or depression (not wanting to get out o bed in the morning), physical ailments such as mining injuries for cave ins, could have a depressurisation chamber for the Benz or greater variety of diseases (trapped in further away biomes.) 

[goboking]

On 1/31/2018 at 12:18 PM, Zarquan said:

I bet they will add a doctor or caretaker job of some kind.  The only hazard is that they will usually have nothing to do associated with their job, so maybe they should have duties other than healing, like maybe stress management and disinfecting.

I'm hoping more diseases and hazards eventually make sickness and injury more commonplace.  Beside, it's not like Artists and Researchers have long-term uses.

 

7 hours ago, Gooblender said:

Or the doctor can run stress management/therapy sessions freeing of the energy requirement of the massage bed. You could also then have further specialisation end paths such as surgeon (for physical injuries), psychiatrist for behaviour disorders (treatment of phobias and stress management/late game mitigation of negative traits) and immunologist (for treating diseases and illnesses and synthesising cures). Each of these could have specialised rooms and equipment (operating theatre, therapy room, quarantine lab night need a gas tight airlock). I feel this has a lot of potential scope.

I recently proposed a Therapist job so we could get some power-free, mobile stress relief, so I'm happy to see I'm not the only one thinking along those lines.  The idea of Therapists treating phobias and such is a very interesting idea.  An Immunologist is also an interesting idea.  Boosts to treating sicknesses and making medicine could be certainly be a perk that sets an experienced Doctor apart from those who just know how to heal physical ailments (wounds, hypothermia, and heat exhaustion)