Starving patients...?

[mscottveach]

Hi. I had a quick question:
I have a patient who is starving and no doctor. Is there any way for me to get him food? He won't get it himself, he's too injured, and since there are no doctors, no one will take care of him. But it seems a little goofy... since it just involves bringing him food.  Is this expected behavior because of lack of doctor? Or am I doing something wrong?

[Patrykbono20]

food deliver warden, not doctor

[Cimanyd]

Doctors deliver food to patients... that's how it works. You can't go into the overview screen and make someone do doctoring?

[Drahkon]

Capture Arrest them and a warden will feed em. Release them later to rejoin.

[mscottveach]

Doctors deliver food to patients... that's how it works. You can't go into the overview screen and make someone do doctoring?

oh, right. the overview screen. ummm, wait, what overview screen??

a lot of things suddenly make a LOT more sense now. hah. somehow,
i never noticed that overview button. can you believe that i've played
probably 5 hours of this game assuming that people's roles were fixed?

ha. basically, i thought that i had to build my colony up with lots of roles
and so i was just mining silver and nothing else, and waiting for slave
ships to pass buy so i could buy everyone and eventually get a reasonable
set of roles. ha. it was like playing the game with my arm tied behind my
back. the overview button changed everything. ha.

next time, i'll actually, you know, read the documentation. or something.