[pessimizer]

The patients are waiting in the ambulance because the waiting room is full, but I see your point. Why not just tip the patient onto the pavement outside the waiting room? I'm sure a full hospital with a full waiting room won't be to busy to sort that out.

[MichaelCollins]

> Why not just tip the patient onto the pavement outside the waiting room? I'm sure a full hospital with a full waiting room won't be to busy to sort that out.

Literally yes. Keeping them in an ambulance instead of the sidewalk won't get them into the ER any faster. And keeping the ambulance tied up at the hospital won't do any good for the next guy who has an emergency and is sitting on the sidewalk at the site of the accident either. At least if you move the injured people to the sidewalk at the hospital, the nurses can look outside and prioritize the worst. And the problem will be highly visible to the public, instead of papered over by using ambulances as waiting rooms.

What they're doing now is obviously prioritizing for appearances, not patient outcome.

[Peanuts99]

Then you only rush to another patient who you can't treat either. Paramedics also need to hand off their treatment to hospital staff, if that doesn't happen then hospitals won't know what treatments were administered.