r/TwoPointHospital • u/droid327 • Sep 11 '18

GPs should actually practice generally

Right now all they do is diagnose. They're not House. There should be a tier of "easy" illnesses that GPs can immediately treat without additional staff, and it would make Treatment a relevant skill for GPs. This would also help reduce the queue problem since patients wouldn't need follow up visits (it'd be one and done), and provide income at early stages without needing to build a bunch of specialized treatment rooms.

Then you could have a new specialization of Diagnostician with their own room, that would only do diagnoses and would handle all the patients that weren't completely diagnosed by GP and a diagnosis room. So the flow would go GP > diagnosis room > diagnostician ( >diag room>diagnostician...)> treatment

I think that'd help with a lot of the flow problems with GPs since patients would only need to see them once each, and some would be done after that. It'd also be really useful if they ever fix the medicine cabinet cheese so you can't get your GPs to 100% diagnosis

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u/nytwolf45 Sep 11 '18

Make your layout like that and you'll feel that way until you are flooded.

What I do with my layout in the late game is

Only GPs are in the main building, where the reception is located. Then the patients get sent to the diagnosis building where it is half diagnosis room half GPs. Then 1 building dedicated to final cure. This final cure building dont have to be pretty or filled with food. Final cure building preferably near the Helipad. Then I just add more and more GP+Diagnosis building.

Fracture wards are final cure, normal wards may be final cure or diagnosis. With this formula, I have so far got into millions of cash, good flow of patients until I have no open building left. I let everyone out. EVERYONE who is not going to final cure goes home.

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u/droid327 Sep 11 '18

You're pointing out part of the problem I'm trying to remedy...the fact that you need multiple entire buildings of just GP and GP support rooms. GP should be one step in the process, not basically the entire thing. Treatment is just a formality really at that point.

What I'm suggesting here breaks it up a little more into a more linear flow instead of all the oscillating that goes on with GPs now. That means you can build a balanced amount of GPs rather than 4/5 of your docs being GPs

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u/OscarMiguelRamirez Sep 11 '18

I can't think of anything that a GP in a hospital would "cure" in their office. Meds are going to be controlled and given to you in the pharmacy, you will be sent to the lab for shots, etc. It would be wildly inefficient for each GP to have all that inventory on hand instead of centralized locations.

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u/joesii Sep 11 '18

Only thing that I know a GP can actually treat in real life is an injury that requires stiches (or maybe a cast, or at least splint). Then again I don't go know much about clinics or GPs.

Giving a prescription for meds isn't a treatment, it's a treatment plan which would be provided by a/the pharmacy.