<sigh> The GC got sick, and his status lowered, but never seemed to change. Since I didn't have any "assigned" doctors, about eight other villagers also got sick and there was a whole crowd in the "clinic."

Occasionally villagers with healing skills (and even some without) would try to heal someone. Sometimes it worked, but if they were going towards the GC I moved one or both of them away to distract the mission.

With enough other villagers sick, I thought that I could let the game run for a while without watching every move, but eventually someone "healed" the GC.

The only successful part of this experiment was that while the GC was sick, he didn't call any parties (or restore the crops, berries, etc.)