I agree that the doctors are the most frustrating villagers in VV2.

I have a set of triplets whose Likes are listed as "herbs"....so I thought making them doctors would be a great idea since they already liked herbs.

Well, nope. They will not go to the herb plants on their own. All they want to do is "enjoy the pond", "Eat', "cool their feet in the stream", and "admire" everything in the village BUT the herb plants. I finally decided to make the sick stew and made the entire village sick. 1 of the triplets became an adept doctor because of that and the other two remained Trainee doctors.

As time has progressed that 1 triplet has moved his bar significantly, but he still has a long ways to go. The other two are just hopeless, but I'm going to give Terina's idea a try. Maybe that'll work for me!