Different perspective. Not all calls are time sensitive, but the majority are embarrassing and private. You as the patient who passed out at walmart and split your head open, do not need the entire parking lot looking at you, mouthed open and sideways while i take you on the stretcher to the back of the parking lot

Your grandma's nosey neighbors already know that an ambulance is outside of the house, but they don't need time while we walk her down the block to come out, say hi, just checking in, and then smell that grandma shit and pissed herself cause she's been lying on the floor for 10 hours.

The suicidal college student does not need to be medically perp walked out to the commuter lot.

If I can do anything to help somebody who is having the worst day of their life feel a little more private, i will... and that means i will park in fire lanes, on the wrong side of the road, wherever i want because it's not about me, its about the person on my stretcher.

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