Is there a limit to the number of doctor offices a given department can have?

I posted the following on the Steam forum a few days ago:  

Is there a limit to the number of doctor offices a given department can have?
I got tired of patients leaving after long waits to see a doctor after coming to the hospital. So I made my ground floor nothing but rows upon rows of doctor offices. I didn't staff all of them yet. Then something strange happened. A patient would see a doctor, then wander around to another office to be followed by the same doctor into a different office, as if the doctor had two offices on different parts of the floor. I tried to solve that problem by staffing that 2nd office but the game said it was already staffed, even though it wasn't. So I deleted that office, and the game deleted several offices as if multiple different offices were linked into being one office even though they weren't near each other. As if some kind of table overflow was occurring in the code. Is this a bug? Or have I pushed the game beyond some limit that the devs never expected a player to do?

A moderator there suggested I submit a bug report here.

To reproduce the bug, load the save file I included with this post and you will see the whole hospital building.  Click down to the ground floor.  You should be facing the main entrance to the clinic area next to the corner where the two streets intersect.  Slide your view to the rear of the clinic area near the bathrooms next to the red doors to the emergency room.  Take note that there are no staff assigned to those rear offices.  Clear some of the doctor offices there next to the bathrooms.  After you clear the rear offices, the game will also clear out some offices in the front near the waiting room and you'll get a pop-up that the doctors have no work space.

I have no mods installed, but I changed the Tweakables to let me have 600 staff.

Also know that this building has been a different hospital in the past.  I like the shape of this building so I gutted the previous hospital leaving only the shell, and built a new hospital inside it -- maybe that confused the game engine by leaving some artifacts behind.

I'm running your game under Steam on Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop.

I've included before and after images, but your forum won't allow me to attach my game save file or the log file.

You can contact me at fredashay (at) ya.oo (dot) com

I'm gonna try deleting the images and then attaching the game save file and the log.

I was able to attach my gave save file, but it said the log is not a valid format.
I tried to submit the log as a reply post, but it is too long.

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Hi, thanks for the detailed report!

Looking at the save I can indeed see some of the rooms being connected (the marking covering more physical rooms, sometimes neighboring, sometimes even detached). The next step will be to figure out if this is actually a bug. The system allows quite a bit of freedom when it comes to rooms shapes and it's even 'legal' to have two detached areas that belong to one room, for example if you mark a very long doctor's office and split it by another overlapping one.

So, a quick question: how did you build the ground floor offices? Were you using prefabs for both equipment and the rooms etc.? Any details would be welcome!

And one last note: no, there shouldn't be any limit to the number of doctors at a single department, just the main employee limit.

Well, like I said, this building was once a previous hospital in which I gutted the inside and completely rebuilt it from scratch inside.  So that's probably what happened.  

How did I build the ground floor, you ask?

I don't remember.  That was a long time ago.  It was tricky to get the 2nd and 3rd floors to overhang the ground floor, and then get the upper floors in the shape of a cross.  The roofs kept doing weird things, so I had several false starts.

When I built the ground floor interior for this iteration, I created my own prefab with the doctor's private "office" adjacent to its examination room and marked the two rooms as a single doctor's office in the game.  I kinda know what unique equipment each department needs in its own doctor's office, so I placed all the equipment in that one office to meet the needs of every department so that I could use the same doctor office prefab in all the different departments without having to rearrange equipment for each department.  Once I did that, I just stamped them down like you see in order to create a "block" of offices around "streets" and "avenues."  Then I made a prefab out of the entire block and then stamped that down a few times.  Then I hired doctors as demand increased.  Then weird things started happening and I just figured I exceeded some limit beyond what the devs expected a player to do.  When it deleted different offices on different parts of the floor, I just assumed I caused some index overflow or something.  That's actually the kind of bug I would expect from a table overflow, lol.