If you as a patient drive yourself to an outpatient cardiology office to get some diagnostics and feel perfectly found but severe blockage is found, the staff will call an ambulance and have you transported to the nearest ED. Even if you are asymptomatic. Fun fact: this will also happen if the ED is within walking distance. There have been cases where an MA was wheeling a seeminly OK patient from a cardiology office to the ED and the patient collapsed in the hallway. That's why it's against protocol.
Yes ambulances are insanely expensive (that's another problem). But availability issues are handled by the 911 dispatcher.
If you as a patient drive yourself to an outpatient cardiology office to get some diagnostics and feel perfectly found but severe blockage is found, the staff will call an ambulance and have you transported to the nearest ED. Even if you are asymptomatic. Fun fact: this will also happen if the ED is within walking distance. There have been cases where an MA was wheeling a seeminly OK patient from a cardiology office to the ED and the patient collapsed in the hallway. That's why it's against protocol.
Yes ambulances are insanely expensive (that's another problem). But availability issues are handled by the 911 dispatcher.