Doctor Career- Lack of co-workers/helpfulness

the game is not programmed the way that NPCs are helping your active sim, rather the opposite, they will be a hindrance

i have my doctor meantime at level 10, it wasn't that hard, little repetitive but pretty straight

for the quickest progress :
* choose genius & maybe neat as traits
* train your sim in logic & handiness as far as possible
* shower energized before work
* if there's time left before work, let your sim ponder moves on the chess board
* while at work let your sim at least once search the Simpedia, it boosts the focused mood
* buy your sim the Morning Sim reward as soon as possible
* care mainly only to complete the tasks given to you by the game & don't care for anything else
* cancel every other interaction which doesn't point towards the accomplishment of the tasks, especially the talking to coworkers interactions
* use the pause key straight after a task is accomplished & head directly for the next task
* if your sim has still some energy left head for some extra hours
* let your sim eat only sandwiches & only if it's really very necessary
* brush teeth at work, it can give your sim the extra positive moodlet needed
* let your sim cook at home only after an inspirational shower, the meals will have a more positive effect & improve the overall mood of your sim

> @SavannaSiara said:
> The Get to Work expansion is great and will only get better when the glitches are fixed. One issue I have and I know it has been mentioned in some other posts is the lack of co-workers at the doctor career I am finding it impossible to advance due to patients leaving and struggled when the doctor co-worker would leave early.
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> If several co-workers are present at the Scientist and Detective careers surely this is a glitch that can be rectified. Also the co-workers need to do some work and help out. Not once has a co-worker at the doctor career helped heal someone.

I always have a problem when the Sim in my current household is at the hospital. He gets there and there will be at least 3 to 4 patients ready to be treated. 5 to 8 more patients will come and 3 to 5 will leave while the orderly and nurse, always singular NEVER plural, will chat up one of the patients while I try to cure the other patients which I can do since I set my Sim to be a General Practitioner. I thought if maybe there were a few more Sims in the doctor career some more would show up to work so I made a family with 4 doctors all at various positions but not a SINGLE one showed up to the hospital, in fact the two nurses from a different earlier household that were there last time weren't there this time! It's honestly really frustrating and feels like fake difficulty rather then the "real" difficulty they say they were going for. I was planning on renovating and expanding the hospital since I put quite a few more Sims in the doctor career but now I don't think I'll be doing that or even going with my Sim to the hospital anymore due to how terribly broken this career is. Hopefully they fix this and make the doctors not be lazy bums.

It gets worse as the months and new patches are added. You may have to skip going with your doctor and hopefully the Sim needed to fulfill a particular chore will show up if you stop going with the Sim sometimes. That has been how I get this game to jar itself into 'right' in the past. But this last patch has just ruined the hospital experience again in my game. My game is making Sims get out of bed to receive their shots and going to whatever bed my Sim is standing at when I click this command instead of her walking to their bed. :s

I posted on the official bug forum that the NPC hospital employees weren't doing any work, and I was told "this is by design." It definitely needs to be looked at. NPCS at the hospital SHOULD admit a few patients and actually do stuff.

I played the doctor career more than any other career for several times, and no one ever called my doctor to celebrate a promotion. Never heard of that in this game.

7 years with no solution? I am trying to find a way to get the co-workers to help in the doctor career. The Orderly when they show up at least fixes broken equipment and cleans messes and makes beds, but I made the nurse my punching bag because she won't do anything but stand between me and a patient chatting.
The receptionist or the nurse can AT LEAST refer patients in the lobby to open beds... it's ridiculous. I mean the most patients I've been able to treat in a day is like 5 assuming I can identify their ailments running a minimum of tests... but to have 6 beds full at the start and 8 more patients filing in, I don't have the time, need or inclination to bed them as they open since they aren't going to be seen anyway. Why is it my problem if they leave? I'm just one Sim.

Agreed.

"SavannaSiara;826337" wrote:
The Get to Work expansion is great and will only get better when the glitches are fixed. One issue I have and I know it has been mentioned in some other posts is the lack of co-workers at the doctor career I am finding it impossible to advance due to patients leaving and struggled when the doctor co-worker would leave early.

If several co-workers are present at the Scientist and Detective careers surely this is a glitch that can be rectified. Also the co-workers need to do some work and help out. Not once has a co-worker at the doctor career helped heal someone.

It's working as it should. They didn't make co workers do stuff as they said, because they didn't want to cramp/interfere with you from having to do it. The doctor leaving the hospital is no big deal. You can still gain a level if you skip that process. You Do Not Have To Fill Every Thing on the Check List to get to the top of that career. :)

I know what you mean, there are loads of patients coming in and the staff there don't actually do anything. There's always a huge queue by the desk and the receptionist just sits there looking at them.. I wish they could put up some chairs and get the receptionist tell them to sit down or something. The Doctors don't really do much either and there's more patients than you can actually cure in a day (including some weird ones who think they have every illness imaginable and come back to the hospital everyday for treatment).

There was one Doctor that I thought was kinda useful but then he just randomly died in the hospital of old age and now his urn is just stuck there... Its quite funny because now the staff spend most of their time crying by it instead of working and that seems to make it worse. Don't have the heart to move it though haha. I kinda wish they'd hire more adults than elder NPCs because half of the staff members are elderly now... I'm looking at them and placing bets on who is going to die next!!!

Another thing I wish they would do is make the patients have different outfits. Anybody who has had a day of all child patients will understand that it is super confusing, especially if you've been daydreaming and not bothered to check the name of the Sim you are treating...it gets really crazy when they walk back form the x-ray machine and sit down and you're debating what Sim you were just treating!

I agree! & My sim has been a doctor for awhile now. In order for her to advance up she has to perform 3 surgeries but no patient ever needs surgery. I think they need to fix that as well.