this is a controversial opinion: auto-menders aren't very good

[Drago156]

I think it should be noted that styptic and silver sulf both can be relatively quickly made with just a chem dispenser. From there you can make whole patch boxes with both chemicals in a single patch. Also, a full box of patches (I think 15 or 20 max a box?) can be well over the chem amount of an auto-mender.

I have never myself had any problems with auto-mender usage except with a certain case: vampires. The annoyance there however didn't come from the healing but rather vampire abilities allowing them to reliably cancel stun after a taser hit or baton and quickly get away to just heal themselves up.