Doctor Class Guide
Doctor is the safe treatment class: heal patients, recover sanity, and gain bonus sanity at higher levels.
Quick Answer
Doctor is a treatment-focused class that rewards clean healing with sanity recovery. It is a good fit for players who spend most of the shift treating confirmed normal patients.
A strong general-purpose class when your team needs a reliable healer.
Doctor Stats
| Field | Confirmed details |
|---|---|
| Cost | 900 Animal Coins |
| Perk | Lv. 1: Recover 1 sanity when healing patients. Lv. 2: Recover sanity when healing patients, +15 bonus sanity. Lv. 3: Recover sanity when healing patients, +20 bonus sanity. |
| Sanity | No separate fixed sanity table is publicly listed; the class gains sanity through healing and level bonuses. |
| Utility | No separate utility effect is publicly listed. |
| Starter Cash | No confirmed starter cash listed. |
Description
Doctor is a treatment-focused class that rewards clean healing with sanity recovery. It is a good fit for players who spend most of the shift treating confirmed normal patients.
Use Doctor when your job is to keep treatment moving after patients are confirmed safe.
Appearance
Doctor is a light-orange, deer-like class wearing blue medical scrubs under a white consultation coat. It has a black stethoscope, taped black glasses, slit eyes with white irises, a small downturned mouth, and large antlers.
How to use Doctor
Pair Doctor with a strong checker or CCTV player. Doctor gets better when teammates prevent anomalies from reaching the treatment stage.
Build the rest of the setup around the class's actual lane. Check the Items guide for inventory priorities, use the shift guide to match the pick to upcoming pressure, and complete the anomaly checks before relying on any perk or special technique.
Doctor turns healing into a sanity loop
Doctor recovers sanity when healing patients and gains bonus sanity at higher levels. There is no separate utility effect listed and no starter cash, so the class is defined entirely by the loop between treating patients and staying sane.
At 900 Animal Coins it is the mid-priced healer, sitting above Psychologist and below Surgeon and Head Nurse. The value proposition is stability rather than speed: Doctor does not make treatment faster, it makes the shift survivable while you do it.
Why Doctor needs someone else checking patients
The class has no detection tool and no defensive tool, which means it is entirely dependent on the patients reaching it being safe ones. If anomalies get through the checks, Doctor has no answer — it recovers sanity from healing, and healing a patient that should have been rejected is not a recovery, it is the mistake that ends the shift.
That is why the recorded team advice pairs Doctor with a strong checker or a CCTV player. Doctor gets better the better the people in front of it are, which makes it a class that rewards a coordinated squad far more than a disorganised one.
Doctor versus Surgeon
Both classes are built on healing, and the difference is what healing gives you back. Doctor recovers sanity from treating patients. Surgeon gains sanity and a speed boost after healing, which makes it the treatment-momentum class at 2500 Animal Coins.
Choose Doctor if your problem is surviving long shifts. Choose Surgeon if your problem is throughput and you already trust your checks. Neither fixes a detection problem, and buying either one to compensate for missed anomalies is spending Animal Coins on the wrong layer.
Skins
- Classic
Trivia
- Doctor resembles Dr. Harlow with glasses, no head mirror, and no face mask, but they are not the same character.
Known Bugs
No confirmed known bugs listed.
Related Guides
All Classes
Compare costs, tiers, perks, and practical team roles.
Items & Shop
Match this class to recovery, treatment, and defense tools.
Shift Progression
Choose the class around the pressure of your next shift.
Special Technique
Read the confirmed utility interaction when relevant.
Anomaly List
Remember that class perks do not replace anomaly checks.
Doctor FAQ
How does Doctor recover sanity?
Doctor recovers sanity when healing patients and gains bonus sanity at higher levels. That is the class kit: there is no inventory capacity bonus, no starter cash and no defensive tool.
Is Doctor worth 900 Animal Coins?
It is worth it if you want a stable treatment role and your team can reliably screen patients before they reach treatment. Without that screening, Doctor has no way to defend itself against an anomaly that gets through.
Should Doctor handle anomaly checking?
No. The class has no detection utility, so checks stay with the visual, photo, CCTV and document layers. Pair Doctor with a dedicated checker or camera player instead.
What is Doctor\u2019s utility?
No separate utility effect is publicly listed for Doctor. Its value is the healing-triggered sanity recovery rather than a tool or an inventory bonus.
Does Doctor have more than one skin?
Only Classic is confirmed for Doctor. There is no additional cosmetic set listed.