# Patient Records not in Hospital

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [June 8, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655 "2018-06-08T23:29:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Orange01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/orange01/32/2469_2.png) [@Orange01](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Orange01)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2018, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/1 "2018-06-08T23:29:45Z")

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I looked all around the hospital I spawned in for patient records and couldn’t find them anywhere. Granted part of it had collapsed but it wasn’t in the part of the hospital marked in the quest. Where is it supposed to spawn in a hospital?

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**Author:** ![Casio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/41988e/32.png) [@Casio](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Casio)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 6:29am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/2 "2018-06-09T06:29:39Z")

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The records you are looking for are non-unique,  
and patient records really just come down to luck. The fact of the matter is that you don’t have to go to where the hospital is to find them. They can also spawn in doctor offices as well, and the hospital that is marked in the quest is really just the nearest hospital according to the npc you got the quest from.

TLDR; Bad luck bro. Try a doctor’s office.

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**Author:** ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/3 "2018-06-09T07:26:00Z")

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It is not being spawned in hospitals, but you can occasionally find it in doctors office and veterinarian clinic.

I thought this could be a bug added while unhardcoding PR ([https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/22543](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/22543)), but it seems patient records didn’t spawn in hardcoded hospital either.

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**Author:** ![Orange01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/orange01/32/2469_2.png) [@Orange01](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Orange01)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/4 "2018-06-09T12:57:44Z")

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Ok, thanks for the heads up!

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**Author:** ![Zhilkin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zhilkin/32/3749_2.png) [@Zhilkin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zhilkin)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/5 "2018-06-09T15:05:26Z")

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> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/23972>

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**Author:** ![Orange01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/orange01/32/2469_2.png) [@Orange01](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Orange01)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 12:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/6 "2018-06-10T00:35:41Z")

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Not really sure what Im looking at. Does this mean that you fixed the hospitals? If so, thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![mlangsdorf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/mlangsdorf/32/2462_2.png) [@mlangsdorf](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/mlangsdorf)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 3:27am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/7 "2018-06-10T03:27:27Z")

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He’s saying he’s proposed changing the game’s files so that there will be bookcases in hospitals that have a 60% chance of spawning various medical related books, including patient records.

If I’m doing the math right, each book case that spawns items has about a 3% chance of spawning patient records and there’s 4 bookcases per hospital. That’s still about twice the rate as a doctor’s office which has 3 possible locations and a 40% chance of spawning an item at each location with the same probability of getting the patient records.

Of course, an early survivor can usually run through a doctor’s office without much difficulty, while hospitals can be challenging even through midgame. And this is only a proposed change. Still, it’s an improvement and will go in sooner or later.

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**Author:** ![Orange01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/orange01/32/2469_2.png) [@Orange01](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Orange01)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2018, 3:37am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/patient-records-not-in-hospital/15655/8 "2018-06-10T03:37:22Z")

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Oh ok, thank you for clarifying.