RELATED: The Sims 4: Everything You Need To Know About Sentiments Using the table above you should be able to work out what illness the patient has from sight alone. Splotchy rash, wiping forehead, random itching Splotchy rash, wiping forehead, sneezing, coughing Headache and steam coming out of the Sim's ears The table below details every illness and its tells. Some of them are more obvious than others and can make you feel more confident when picking an ailment out of many when your Sim is only mildly certain about the illness presented. Once you have treated your patient, you will immediately learn whether you were successful or not.Īll of the illnesses in The Sims 4 have visual cues that can streamline the process once you learn them. Surgery is similar to the treadmill or x-ray machine - to use the Surgery Machine you need to refer your patient and then follow them to perform the surgery. Some illnesses will just require inoculation, while others require surgery.
Once a diagnosis is locked in, you must then treat your patient with the correct treatment. You will need to follow them and then perform the diagnosis. In order to test a patient on the treadmill or get them x-rayed, you need to refer them to that diagnosis room. They are also very time-consuming, so you really have to weigh up the potential positives against the negatives.
These are useful if they work, but will often fail unless you are on the upper rungs of the Doctor Career ladder. You have a variety of high-level diagnosis methods available to you, including getting the patient to use a treadmill or be x-rayed. Be careful though, you only have one chance to pick the correct diagnosis. You can lock in an illness and treat it there and then, or perform a more in-depth diagnosis to be narrow the list of choices down. After a few examinations, you'll get a list of ailments that you think the patient might have. Once you are able to treat patients yourself, you'll be given more information about the patients' ailments as you perform more diagnoses. On the other hand, they take time and can be safely ignored without fear of a performance hit. These can be useful for bringing up your job performance quickly. These will require that you use the front desk to travel for a home visit. You might end up encountering outbreaks at some point in your career.
Eventually, you'll hand them over to the doctors, since you aren't allowed to treat them yourself just yet.īringing patients food is an easy way to interact with a lot of patients without micromanaging and may stop them from going home early from feeling ignored. The Doctor Career has rather simple tasks to balance out how time-consuming they are and how easy it is to mess up.Īt the beginning of the career, you'll largely be taking care of patients and performing simple diagnosis routines on them. This is paired with a performance bar which fills up as tasks are completed - your overall job performance will increase based on how well you can fill this bar up each time you go to work. Once you've joined your Sim at the hospital, you'll realize that in the top-left corner of the screen they have a list of tasks that they have to complete.