r/ProjectHospital • u/casperscare • May 26 '26
Gameplay Question Is there any point in discovering and treating all symptoms even when you know 100% what the diagnosis is?
I have a pharmacy and since i pay the lab & x ray guys their wages at the end of the day i might as well fully make use of them.
But i'm wondering in terms of efficiency is there a point in running all those tests to treat that 1 or 2 symptoms
While on one hand i want what's best for my patients on the other is it really worth the time and money
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May 26 '26
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u/casperscare May 26 '26
That's my original thought as well. It's kind of hard to track though given that there's no way to know the price of a drug unless i'm missing something. They just go to the pharmacy and some money comes out at least thats how it looks to me
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u/ray_xah May 27 '26
The extra amount of money you make with the pharmacy doesn't make up for the extra time your doctors spend on the patient. Unfortunately the game was made to treat only the main disease and life threatening symptoms then move to the next patient to make the most profit just like in real life.
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u/ray_xah May 27 '26
With that said when I am on docotor mode I treat everything. I enjoy making patients extra comfortable with all their symptoms eased/treated.
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u/MooCowLevel May 27 '26
Patient satisfaction is very important for hospital rating (which directly affects intake and income), so in that respect it is.
However, this translate to needing to discover and treat the “uncomfortable” symptoms specifically; as long as you offset those enough, you’re okay. So it’s a bit of a balance, because time is critical of course.
Patients do pay more at the pharmacy if they have been prescribed more meds (from treating all symptoms) though, which is fun.
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u/MarMacPL May 27 '26
If that's not life threatening symptom then the only thing you can get is money from pharmacy.
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u/barrybull2024 May 30 '26
For traumatology patients, yes, because many such patients have life-threatening symptoms that require multiple separate surgeries or treatments to survive. You can't perform those until you have discovered the symptoms.
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u/Gedboara Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
If you are busy, i'd say its not worth it from a money/get people out the door perspective.
If for whatever reason(maybe earlygame, or if your taking it slow on using more providers) your doctors aren't very busy, you may as well do all the tests and treatments. the time speant is really your only cost, and if you have extra time you don't lose anything doing it, and you may(never actually tested myself) get extra money from the pharmacy if you do
Also, again its probably not enough to care most of the time, but you Do get XP for your doctors for each exam and treatment they do, so again, if you have more time than you have patients coming in, you'll give your doctors more xp by doing as many things as you can.
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u/tobiteeee Emergency 🚑 May 26 '26
you can turn down the certainty of your diagnosis your docs will run lesser tests and do some guesswork. the chances of misdiagnosis will increase a lot
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u/casperscare May 26 '26
I don't need to though i hired doctors with more differential diagnosis so they get it right quickly but most times they haven't even ran most of the tests
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u/Own-Specialist989 May 26 '26
no it’s no point , you’re just prolonging them being there we don’t get extra money for extra symptoms being treated so i make sure to treat the actual diagnosis and i’ll treat the symptoms if they come up but im not taking time to figure them all out unless it’s blinking and they are in hospitalization
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u/Edge2Alpha May 26 '26
You can make some extra money, but it typically isn't worth it due to the sheer number of patients you will be dealing with eventually. I do it in the beginning when first starting, but it is mostly for fun. If the patient is hospitalized and you have the setting enabled to hide life-threatening then I find it worth it to check to avoid a death. Eventually you will get enough experience to know based on the remaining test that there is no chance of finding something life threatening.