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1) Henry falls to the planet bleeding profusely from multiple cuts. He has 9 hours to live. He gets up, walks into my camp, takes up a medical bed. No warden or doctor may treat him, so.. He dies alone in bed.

Does this actually ever happen (in vanilla)? I can't remember ever having a spacer drop who could walk - they were alway incapacitated.
Other than that I'm just wondering about this event, how do our colonists land safely with no injury at while all these other people seem to crash land...

It does. Not all that often but I recently had one where a spacer got dropped onto an empty colony, got up and walked off map (bleeding profusely)

So I've done some google searches on whether there is any way to treat colonists medically when they're on their own and I haven't found anything. I've seen a few suggestions that colonists should be able to treat themselves from quite a while back, but if that's maybe bad for balancing or AI reasons, I have a different suggestion. Maybe with the new alpha 16 features, you could form a caravan and send them off to seek medical treatment from a nearby faction base. It would maybe cost an amount of silver based on the severity of the wounds/infections (at point of arrival) and would force your colonist to remain in caravan until they were healed (which they would do normally and any infected wounds would progress at the normal well-treated rate). This would also help people who have nobody capable of doctoring, but also would take too long to allow people who are critically wounded to just treat themselves in the absence of a doctor. It's more for those times when you don't have a doctor and don't want the fact that you were attacked by a crazy hare to be a death sentence.