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[Fallout, New Vegas] How is the Courier even alive?

Guy gets shot in the head at point blank range from a .45. How is his brains not all scattered across the desert floor?
gpt
People can and do survive gunhot wounds to the head. It's rare, but it happens. Some of it depends on how and where the bullet enters, whether it deflects off the skull, hits arteries, how much brain matter is damaged and where, etc.

The courier got very very lucky, and survived long enough for Victor to bring you to the (amazingly competent) Doc in Goodsprings, who took care of the rest. You can chalk up the quick physical recovery and lack of major debilitating function loss to the level of technology and medicine available to the good Doc, even in the post-apocalyptic Mojave Wasteland.