Koolau
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In our case an ambulance would take us to a less than desirable hospital. I’ve been taken there for severe back pain and never want to go there again. We have another hospital that is excellent, but a little further away. We will always try to make it ourselves and if necessary call an ambulance from the car. Maybe we’ll be close enough for them to take us there then.
That is interesting. I don't recall how we did it when DW had to ride to the hospital due to chest pains (which we were almost certain was A Fib - and it was.) I THINK we told them which hospital to take her to. ALL of our docs (including cardiologist) are associated with that hospital, so it would have made no sense to take her anywhere else. And, that it the ER we went to.
The REASON we took the ambulance was so that she would be quickly hooked up to an EKG which would FINALLY document what was going on with her heart. We'd never been able to "catch" it when it happened. By the time we got to her doc, it had converted on its own. So doc could only guess. THIS time, in the ambulance, the EKG did catch the A Fib even though DW had converted by the time she got to the ER. SO, that was a "good" ambulance utilization.
I simply never thought about the ambulance driver taking you someplace you didn't want to go.
I guess, YMMV.