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The Weekly Medical Journal for Doctors

Today's Physician is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics[]

A weekly medical journal, reading this magazine raises the Medicine skill by 10 points (20 points with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).

Crafting[]

This item can be crafted by the player character.

Creation requirements

Materials:Requirements:Produces:
Range
Repair: 25
Picking up a copy of Today's Physician after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen.
Level
Today's Physician (1)

¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.

Locations[]

Below is a list of all fixed locations of Today's Physician skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons. For an overview of magazines per location, see the main overview page.

Closest map markerLocation description
Aerotech Office ParkSuite 300, on a side table in the main lobby
Broc flower caveIn the upper chamber with the rest of the medical loot, on the table near the dummy computer terminal
Camp McCarranInside the storage tent in the parking lot, with a Future Weapons Today
Charleston CaveOn a shelf in a room near a submerged section, at the back of the cave, next to a Fixin' Things and Lad's Life.
Dry Wells Lonesome Road (add-on)In a lead-lined metal box together with a Lad's Life, west on the map on a ledge with several ammunition boxes and stimpaks
Followers safehouseOne is found on the middle bed of the safehouse, next to a multiplas rifle
GoodspringsOn the desk directly in front of the Courier's bed when first waking up at Doc Mitchell's house
Gun RunnersInside the building, to the left under the bathroom stall
Hopeville Missile Base Headquarters Lonesome Road (add-on)In a Hard locked safe, together the armory access codes, north on the local map
Jean Sky DivingOn the highway northeast in a Powder Ganger-occupied camper, near a Sunset Sarsaparilla billboard
Junction 7 rest stop Lonesome Road (add-on)In a ruined building called Parker's Restaurant and Fountain, just off the highway, near a bed with a skeleton
Lucky 38Two - in the Presidential suite, one on a table in the master bedroom, one on a desk in the northwest room with the bathtubs
Mick & Ralph'sOn the bed upstairs
Mountain Shadows CampgroundOn a picnic table
Nellis Air Force BaseOn a table upon entering the Nellis children's barracks
Nellis Air Force BaseNellis schoolhouse, in the Very Easy locked teacher's desk
New Vegas medical clinicOn a small desk
New Vegas StripGiven by Emily Ortal as a reward for successfully planting the bug during the quest The Moon Comes Over the Tower
Old Mormon FortIn the room in the upstairs tower, also given by Julie Farkas after providing her with enough supplies during Friend of the Followers
Red Rock drug labIn the front trailer, on a bench near a chemistry set
Residential District Dead MoneyOn a table next to a stove, in a Cloud surrounded house in the northeast.
Securitron de-construction plant Old World Blues (add-on)Under a large burned book to the right of the entrance on a book shelf at the entrance
Sierra Madre Casino & Resort Dead MoneyExecutive suites, next to a chemistry set in Vera Keyes's suite
Sierra Madre Casino & Resort Dead MoneyExecutive suites, in the room to the northeast, on a desk
Third Street Municipal Building Lonesome Road (add-on)Top floor, in a physician's desk near the edge of the building
Vault 3Recreation area, on a desk in the medical room
Vault 3Living quarters, in a carpeted bedroom, opposite the entrance to the living quarters from the recreation area
Vault 19First floor, in the clinic, on the desk next to the destroyed computer

Notes[]

The appearance of the magazine in-world and in the loading screen it appears differ with their cover art.

Gallery[]

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