Doctor Career: Symptoms and Illness List

[officialghosts]

@Kamek You're welcome! And wow, that it quite interesting! I've definitely never seen that pattern before.

@pepper I'm glad the guide is helping so much! It's totally possible that the orange and green spots are a symptom of Triple Threat and I just missed it. Thank you for mentioning it.

[Kamek]

@officialghosts Yeah! Maybe they intended to include another illness with that symptom but decided against it.

Also, the spotty rash is indeed part of the triple threat! Because it comes with the symptom of coughing/sneezing. This is also why the giggling symptom is part of itchy plumbob: to give it another rash. I've been playing the doctor career a LOT...

So knowing which rash goes with what symptom helps a lot with diagnosing.

[Summers]

Every time my doctor sim was about to diagnose the patients' signs, I opened Carl's Guide doctor career page. The best help from there was just keep testing X-ray and Running machine until the signs narrow down. I could get only 2 choices eventually, then I was able to diagnose nearly perfectly. The other thing I tried is I edited the hospital. I put x-ray, chemical analyzer, running machine and patient bed in each room so that my doctor sim won't waste time for walking around and it saved a lot of time and he could test more and more. Also he updated all the machines  using night time. He used to get home at 9 pm for updating machines very often. Eventually, he was able to reach to the top level 10.

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[Lee9]

Hi! I just registered to add my input, since I couldn't find this exact info anywhere else in this thread.

I just had a patient both itching and swiping. I made a guess and succesfully diagnosed and treated for Itchy Plumbob.

Don't know if those symptoms combined always indicates Itchy Plumbob, but at least now it's out there for other confused simmers to make an educated guess

Btw, thank you so much for this list! Without it, I probably never would've tried this career. I do NOT have the patience :p

[Teeg]

I love this list. Thank you! I just had a patient come in with a rash, upset stomach, and the diagnosis was Gas & Giggles (the swab gave me the answer or I would have guessed wrong). Just thought I'd mention it since neither clue would have given me the right answer if my sim hadn't figured it out on her own.

Here's the rash:

[Carl]

@Teeg  thank you! I will see if i can make any meaningful edits to the page, I haven't personally played a Dr. in a while now!

[Summers]

My doctor sim had completed in Logic skill before joining doctor career. He failed mostly every time he analyzed patients' samples. I thought it maybe..from not upgraded machine or it's just due to the low level at career, he was only level 2, orderly. So my sim upgraded the machine, then he didn't fail in it, also he was level 3 at career. Now he got promoted to Medical Technologist. I'm worried he will be failed in treating his first patient. 

[nrj28]

@Carl Just found a new presentation for sweaty shivers. On your tutorial page it just mentions the patient being itchy. My patient presented with a fever and orange/green spot rash. Not itchy. I thought it was definitely llama flu but it ended up being Sweaty Shivers (guaranteed diagnosis).

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[Surrenadee]

Based on the wonderful data officialghosts kindly put together, I created a spreadsheet that has helped me tremendously in combining symptoms for a diagnosis. I hope it can come in handy for others. Use it in good sim health!

[Surrenadee]

A different spreadsheet for the same purpose.

[Carl]

@Surrenadee This is pretty handy. I may refer people to this whenever I get around to doing a Dr. video... having all this solid info on symptoms is really the best thing that can be done to help people. This was definitely the hardest career in Sims I have ever covered.

Thanks for your contributions.