It help be helpful if they have 2 additional slots for themselves, 1 for a meal like the raiders and the 2nd can be a medical, so they can be healed in battle but it would not require a med bed to perform healing as what would defeat carrying it. (but it would be far less effective than a bed) (maybe just to stop the bleeding then when they get back to the bed, they can get better treatment for it)
old but gold