“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: | ||
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Wonderglue (1) Blank magazine (2) | Repair: 25 Picking up a copy of Today's Physician after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen. | 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 marker | Location description |
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Aerotech Office Park | Suite 300, on a side table in the main lobby |
Broc flower cave | In the upper chamber with the rest of the medical loot, on the table near the dummy computer terminal |
Camp McCarran | Inside the storage tent in the parking lot, with a Future Weapons Today |
Charleston Cave | On 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 | 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 safehouse | One is found on the middle bed of the safehouse, next to a multiplas rifle |
Goodsprings | On the desk directly in front of the Courier's bed when first waking up at Doc Mitchell's house |
Gun Runners | Inside the building, to the left under the bathroom stall |
Hopeville Missile Base Headquarters | In a Hard locked safe, together the armory access codes, north on the local map |
Jean Sky Diving | On the highway northeast in a Powder Ganger-occupied camper, near a Sunset Sarsaparilla billboard |
Junction 7 rest stop | In a ruined building called Parker's Restaurant and Fountain, just off the highway, near a bed with a skeleton |
Lucky 38 | Two - 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's | On the bed upstairs |
Mountain Shadows Campground | On a picnic table |
Nellis Air Force Base | On a table upon entering the Nellis children's barracks |
Nellis Air Force Base | Nellis schoolhouse, in the Very Easy locked teacher's desk |
New Vegas medical clinic | On a small desk |
New Vegas Strip | Given by Emily Ortal as a reward for successfully planting the bug during the quest The Moon Comes Over the Tower |
Old Mormon Fort | In 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 lab | In the front trailer, on a bench near a chemistry set |
Residential District | On a table next to a stove, in a Cloud surrounded house in the northeast. |
Securitron de-construction plant | Under a large burned book to the right of the entrance on a book shelf at the entrance |
Sierra Madre Casino & Resort | Executive suites, next to a chemistry set in Vera Keyes's suite |
Sierra Madre Casino & Resort | Executive suites, in the room to the northeast, on a desk |
Third Street Municipal Building | Top floor, in a physician's desk near the edge of the building |
Vault 3 | Recreation area, on a desk in the medical room |
Vault 3 | Living quarters, in a carpeted bedroom, opposite the entrance to the living quarters from the recreation area |
Vault 19 | First 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.
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