wouldn't work. Example: Dispatched for Sick person. arrive to find elderly pt. in bed looks like absolute death. Attach the monitor an lo and behold we have a bradycardia. So we stabilize and transport. So in your system a cab would have responded and most likely pushed the pt to get out of bed and out of the house resulting in a now dead patient.

I work in a rural system yes some calls take 15 minutes plus to get there. However we have had saves before where the statistics said we shouldn't have. So ask yourself would you want people to at least try to help you? Or just leave you to die?

The best thing you can learn while your a basic is that we don't decide what an emergency is. The patient does. This is EMS blasphemy but if a drug addict is going through withdrawals that can be a serious condition in their eyes. We are here to serve and help not judge and ignore.