I took the quest of helping around the camp at Forlorn Hope. I've helped with munitions and when the captain asks me to go help the doctor with his patients I convince the doctor that I have the medical skills needed, which I have. However, when I go to the patients and I have the option of pressing "e" to diagnose the patients nothing happens when I press it. Am I doing something wrong here or is it a bug or what? I know that I can tell the doctor that I can't cure them and have the quest go forward but I'd like to help him out.

Im pretty sure you need the required items to carry out operations or diagnose there injuries e.g scalpols etc.

Plus i think some of your skills have to be above a certain level, if you google im sure you will find something.

i'm pretty sure it goes 25 50 75 but you might want to check the wiki.

The items you need to help them might all be in the room. I had most but found one item there.

You shouldn't need any items just a high enough Medicine skill, you might need a skill mag boost to finish.

Should have completed your residency in emergency med, but you were just SO eager to explore the wasteland as a courier, now what's it gotten you? Patients you can't diagnose and a bullet in the head.

LOL.

But seriously, if you can't interact with them at all, it seems like a bug. Try doing stuff like exiting/reentering the room, or waiting a couple hours (maybe even sleeping on one of the empty beds). Worst comes to worst, try disabling/enabling the patients in the console (if on PC).

I have 70+ as my medicine skill with today's physician. I suppose I shouldn't need any supplies until the last of them. I've tried exiting the room and loading an older save without some quests done and playing further and further for weeks on game time. Still nothing happens when I press e. It doesn't give an initial dialogue where it would tell what supplies or what skill I need, it just doesn't do anything.