Quote Originally Posted by Dr Mario View Post
The stimpacks can actually heal you for a fair bit, provided you buff your medicine skill to a sufficient level. Which hardly anyone does.
There's a + medicine bobblehead in the prologue. Then there's a couple early quests that add medicine perks. Throw in whatever your innate score is, it's going to be at a sufficient level unless you're specifically building your character to not have a high medicine.