Being a medical person myself, I have added 2 pieces to my med bag, on advice of one of the first responders at the Las Vegas shooting: a Sharpie and head torch. I got a very small and light Petzl that runs off a button battery: should last long enough for me to get to my other lights/till power turns back on.
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I carry a Fisher Space Pen in my pocket and a small flashlight I can clip to the brim of a baseball cap on my belt. The intent is similar.
The Sharpie writes on skin, does the fisher space pen? If so, I might get one.
Not as well as a sharpie, but yes. I still think it's handy to have, though, because the bullet style is very pocket-friendly, and it can write on almost any surface, unlike a pencil, and at any angle, unlike most ballpoint pens.
In my Young Marines first aid course, they said the most likely need to write something was time of tourniquet application, in which case there would likely be blood aplenty for noting that crudely. What other situations warrant a marker? Don't get me wrong, sharpie trumps gore as an ink.
The idea for a sharpie in medical bag is that you can write triage/treatment on patient in mass casualty event.