Medic is underpowered.

[aquillion]

Compared to other skills, 'Medic' just isn't very good. A 20% boost from medicine is not very high, and from what I've seen most players don't bother carrying medicine anyway -- sure, those pills or medkits might help you survive, but you know you're going to need food, weapons, and ammo.

Compare this to the combat skills, or the sleep / food ones, which help you constantly with stuff you know you're going to need; or to skills like Leadership and Carpentry which add a whole new dimension to the game by opening up new strategies.

Perhaps, in addition to the 20% increase, Medic should let you use medkits multiple times -- one additional time per level of Medic. This could be accomplished by giving them a charge meter; with no levels in medic, using it uses up 100% of the meter, with one level it uses up 50%, then 33%, etc. This would make carrying around a medkit much more worthwhile, and would be enough of a benefit to actually change the way you play the game when you have it.

Alternatively or in addition, the Medic skill could let you use medicine on others.

[Kurik]

IIRC using medicine on others is something that's already planned to be implemented at some point.

I agree with this suggestion. The Medic skill would be a lot more useful if it made medikits multiple-use, especially when running around with followers after using medicine on others is implemented. As it is, I'm not sure I've ever taken a level of Medic.

[toupz]

I always do med runs, drop a few medkits at my hideout so i can always go there and heal if i can't sleep to heal completly. And it's good to locate drugstores and run to em to heal on the spot, the med skill isn't that bad it does a huge boost and bandages are easy to find.

[DrPyromaticGuy]

When you think the medic skill is underpowered you can edit the skill data with notepad so it's more powerful.
I did that, because medicine were too useless to me for just a few health points.

[zebiolizard2]

It works on pills as well, Never needed to sleep again.

[Nakovalen]

If using medicine on others is implemented, then the skill could be like:
Level 1: +20% medicine effect on yourself
Level 2: +20% medicine effect on others
Level 3: +20% medicine effect
Levle 4: +20% medicine effect on others
Level 5: +20% medicine effect

You'll end up healing with +60% on yourself and +80% on others.

And maybe we could have more than 1 skill that allow us to regain health, something like Triage or Healer, that gives stackable medkits or HP regen.

Thou I still think the health system as a whole could get a little upgrade (injuries, infection and whatnot)