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Medicine
Fallout: New Vegas

Medicine

Learn how the Medicine skill affects Stimpaks, Rad-X, and RadAway in Fallout: New Vegas. Discover if it's essential for your playthrough and its impact on Hardcore mode.

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Learn how the Medicine skill affects Stimpaks, Rad-X, and RadAway in Fallout: New Vegas. Discover if it's essential for your playthrough and its impact on Hardcore mode.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    The Medicine skill determines how many Hit Points you’ll replenish upon using a Stimpak, and the effectiveness of Rad-X and RadAway.
  2. 2
    This skill, for all its apparent worth, can be ignored.
  3. 3
    There is always another way of handling a situation, from donning an Environmental Suit, to visiting a doctor, to just using more Caps.
  4. 4
    It’s more useful in Hardcore mode to be able to ignore these inconveniences, but in a normal game you don’t really need a high Medicine score.
  5. 5
    That said, there are a good number of Medicine challenges in this game, so from a story aspect it’s not entirely bad to splurge a little extra.

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