<unpopular opinion>I actually love the Doctor career.</unpopular opinion>
That said, I load this page whenever I go into work: https://www.carls-sims-4-guide.com/careers/gettowork/doctor/
I don't pay too much attention to the rashes. I wait until there are only 2 or 3 options under Compelling Diagnosis, and then I look at the symptoms on the page. Also, watch the patients' idle animations. They provide important clues.
@xochiquetzl_xkvn That's the guide I've been using as well. It's been pretty helpful though I still get something wrong from time to time, especially since I can rarely ever get a guaranteed diagnosis and sims just don't like to show symptoms for me. You mentioned the idle animations, but as I said they do more idling than they do animations. Maybe I'm just rushing, and not paying enough attention I don't know.
I guess once I hit max level I'll either quit the career or just not join my sim when they go. Overall the whole career is just too repetitive for me, the science one as well, and it's just too much of the same each time. I just don't have much tolerance for repetition anymore, so I guess these careers just aren't for me.
Is the police career any different, or is it the same as the other two careers and you end up repeating a lot of the same things over and over? I'd like to give it a try, but if it's anything like the other two I'm not so sure I would like it either.
Yeah, what I usually do is queue up all the doctor stuff where he's checking patient things and while he's analyzing the sample I watch the patient and not him. (Both of my doctors are male, yes, I just realized that...) While he's doing his thing at the Analyzer the patient is swatting in front of their face, or clutching their stomach, or seeing stars, or whatever. I stll get it wrong sometimes but not as often as you might think. Also, if I can't narrow it down past two or three and have no idea I move on to another patient rather than guessing wrong.
Also, the tests the DM 😉 suggests are not necessarily the tests that will isolate whatever the patient has. I do more tests than the DM at upper left asks me to do. The Swab for Sample followed by the Chemical Analyzer seems to narrow things down a lot, but also some conditions have fevers and some don't, for example...
@xochiquetzl_xkvn I actually got into the habit of moving on to another patient if I can't determine an illness, and it's something that seems to have helped a little. I can not only ignore the patient whose illness I can't determine without risking a loss in performance, but if I still need to do daily tasks then I'm most likely going to need to move on to another patient anyway. The tip of watching the patients while using the analyzer seems like a really good idea, and I'm probably just too stupid to have thought of that which admittedly I am very stupid. Thank you for the tips, I appreciate it.
@daikoyu Aw man that stinks. I was hoping it would offer a little more variety. I guess I'll try it anyway, unless it involves a lot of social interactions then I'm not about to try it until that mean bug is fixed. I also agree with what you said about consoles and PC. I play on console now because my PC is acting up, but when I can play on PC I use a really old outdated version of the game without all the current issues. Even then I still have a lot of mods in place that fix issues, but I'd rather not have those mods at all. It's great that modders can fix some of the stuff that EA doesn't, but I completely agree that the modders should be doing other things and not having to fix the game.
Oh, one other question I thought of while playing earlier. If I don't do the daily tasks, how much of an impact will that have on my career performance? I've noticed that curing patients can really seem to bump up performance, so I had this idea that maybe I could focus on trying to cure patients and just ignore the tasks. It's probably a stupid idea, which is why I wanted to ask and make sure I wasn't hurting my performance.
