Physicians and their operating tables

[Ricalynn]

Does anyone else's physician love to medicate once and discharge the sims?  It annoys me so I've gotten to the point where as soon as I can medicate I queue up medicate sim eight times.  The doctor will then keep doing it until the patient is fully cured which is an achievement!  Or maybe it's just my game that's special.

[Jonna]

I haven't needed to medicate more than once on the operating table.  I do the leeches (I go ahead and put it all the way into the yellow -- it's yellow, right? lol) and then medicate once.  The patient is always fully cured for me.

[Lestrade]

No, it's not yours alone. It goes in line with the priests which never holds sermons beyond putting the book on the table.

When I am not playing my physician he often has the Icon over his head which displays a Person and a tombstone who died by his treatment.
When my active Sim needs treatment I never go to the inactive physician anymore, did that once and died. Now I always use salves and potions.

[Missa]

That's funny because my bard got a moderate injury and was limping so I sent her to the physician and he operated and fully cured her. 

[Skyberry]

I haven't had this problem since I worked out how to actually use the operating table. I don't even diagnose other sims any more. I click on the table and if a list of names pops up I click a name. When they are on the table I use leech's (shudder) till the bar is in the yellow/gold area then medicate. The sims is fully cured, pays some simoles and off he/she trots.
At first I was diagnosing sims in the 'waiting' room but the fools would run off before I could click on the table!

[Joria]

Do any of you stock your operating table and craft table or just carry all the herbs with you?  I tend to keep my inventory with very little in it so I went ahead and stocked both of these things but don't know if there is an actual benefit to it.

[Theo]

Do any of you stock your operating table and craft table or just carry all the herbs with you?  I tend to keep my inventory with very little in it so I went ahead and stocked both of these things but don't know if there is an actual benefit to it.

I have not stocked an operating table - yet but I do stock most everything that I can. Why? First to reduce the clutter of what is in my active hero's inventory, secondly to pass on items to heroes not yet, uh, in the kingdom. For example: my blacksmith made two sets of steel plate armor and two steel long swords, one set he dropped on the Monarch, the second he put in the forge inventory to pass on to the Knight once the Barracks is built.

I hope that helps.

* 2011/04/04 - Corrected minor grammatical errors.  [blush] *

[Skyberry]

Do any of you stock your operating table and craft table or just carry all the herbs with you?  I tend to keep my inventory with very little in it so I went ahead and stocked both of these things but don't know if there is an actual benefit to it.

I don't know if there is a benefit as such but I don't stock anything mainly because I forget to. But after what Theo said I think I should make the time to do it so other hero's can ..benefit .. from another hero's labours.

[Joria]

In buy mode you can buy different levels/quality of the physician's tables.  Has anyone bought a more expensive one and is there any benefit to it?

[Simmerqueen]

Interesting - I didn't even realize that Joria, but now that you've mentioned it I'm definitely going to try it! 

[Missa]

I bought the most expensive one and I didn't notice a difference but my physician was level 10 so that might have something to do with it. It did look more comfortable lol!

[chrissie]

I hadn't noticed there was a more expensive operating table either, thanks Joria!