Of course you should cut corners when you need to get somewhere fast. Ambulances go through red lights!
That is a deeply unfortunate line to see.
Humanity has known for decades that “[most medical calls] don’t dramatically worsen in the course of a very few minutes, and they don’t spread from person to person” (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 2017).
In the case of red lights and sirens, maybe they made sense before bystander CPR and before we had empirical data. But not now.
The overuse of red lights and sirens doesn’t save lives. It ends them.
That is a deeply unfortunate line to see.
Humanity has known for decades that “[most medical calls] don’t dramatically worsen in the course of a very few minutes, and they don’t spread from person to person” (Journal of Emergency Medical Services, 2017).
In the case of red lights and sirens, maybe they made sense before bystander CPR and before we had empirical data. But not now.
The overuse of red lights and sirens doesn’t save lives. It ends them.