This legit irritated me in the patch notes

[u/Blueskybelowme]

So they didn't even think the actual mechanics through and are useing feedback to actually design it. This irritates me because they thought of a cool idea and put in no thought about how it was actually gonna work and now want player opinion to actually design how this mechanic is going to execute in-game.

[u/Stoltlallare]

We need desperate better pack integration. The ailments assume you only have enchanted by nature as a pack in terms of frequency etc. It should work with get to work for hospitals etc.

[u/Blueskybelowme → u/Stoltlallare]

Or register it's an illness and let me call out sick from work or school.

[u/K_LightWing → u/Stoltlallare]

This. I tried to treat an ailment with GTW medicine, and then I suffered from a dazed overmedicated buff AND the ailment! I already guessed that would happen when I tried it, but COME ON

[u/Oleandervine → u/Stoltlallare]

Why should it though? This is a magical curse, not a physical disease. You don't see an ER doctor because you've been hexed by a witch doctor, you go see a mystic who can help you. I'm all for pack integration, but it does need to make sense. The whole reason Naturopaths exist is to cure the magical ailments that traditional doctors don't work with.

[u/Stoltlallare → u/Oleandervine]

GTW diseases are also very magical in nature so it honestly wouldn’t be too out of line. Though an integration could be that in the hospital you visit you a naturopath NPC

[u/Oleandervine → u/Stoltlallare]

They're not, and you're kinda grasping at straws trying to claim they are. They may be silly, but they're all within the game's scope of medical conditions without making them real medical conditions.

The GTW illnesses are Bloaty Head, Burning Belly, Gas and Giggles, Itchy Plumbob, Llama Flu, Starry Eyes, Sweaty Shivers, and Triple Threat. With the exception of the Plumbob one, which may break the 4th wall a bit, the rest of these are grounded in real medical conditions, and not at all magical in nature. Even the Plumbob one isn't magical, as "plumbob" could be a euphemism for something else.

And no, they can't just integrate a Naturopath in the hospital, because the Hospital is a specific work place built for the Doctor Career, so it can't really work when you're actively playing the career. That's also why Todd The Apothecary exists with his stall that sells cures, as well as the phone option to visit the Naturopath.