Healthcare
-> Doctors, hospitals, and how to cure what ails you
* Hospitals are used like zones. Items it can used within these zones (beds, tables, boxes) are allow for hospital use
o They also use a new item, called a traction bench
* Doctors can "prescribe" treatment, such as bedrest, using splints for broken bones, amputation for infected limbs, and surgery
o Doctors will set bones for simple fractures, use traction for difficult overlapping fractures and use surgery for disgusting compound fractures. They also excise rotting tissue and amputate limbs too rotted off to save.
o The system where dwarves heal on the season change is gone
* Wounds are dressed with bandages, which speeds healing and slows bleeding
o Sutures make wounds heal faster
o Sutures can be ripped out in combat, causing pain/bleeding
* Crutches are now in the game, allowing one legged dwarves/injured people to walk normally (as opposed to crawl). They will move faster as they get comfortable with their new crutch
o Casts are also in
* Creatures can now clean the filth they acquire due to various materials, like mud, blood, vomit, etc.
o As such, soap has a use now, which deserves its own bullet point
* You can appoint a "chief medical dwarf" to handle the various medical information, which requires the "Diagnosis" skill
o What type of various medical information? "unit wounds/status/required treatments/medical history, etc."- Think of it like the bookkeeper
* Dwarves are more proactive in saving wounded people, and will do what they can in regards to bleeding on the way to the hospital
* "Eyelids clean the eyes so you don't have to soap them off, but if an eyelid is torn off, I think they might soap the eyes"
* Patients can use soap/water to clean wounds and grime to reduce infections. Sutures, casts, etc. will reduce infection as well
* All cloth and thread items have associated lengths/areas now. Threads are use for sutures (thus, one "thread" item could be used for multiple sutures) and cloth is used for bandages. Items in this way aren't split (ala coins or bolts), but rather, they're consumed in pieces
* Unskilled or apprentice doctors can make mistakes when treating a patient or doing surgery
* "Healthcare" as a skill is gone. It's been replaced by 7 new labor settings, 5 unit types, and 6 new skills
o There are different type of doctors associated with the skills
o Dressing wounds, diagnosis, surgery, setting bones, suturing and walking with crutches appear to be the new skills
