Sentences with phrase «instead of the ambulance»

It turns out lots of people are calling an Uber instead of an ambulance when they need to go to the hospital.

People taking Uber instead of ambulances to the hospital isn't all bad.

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Over the next few years, count on some walk - in urgent - care centers to evolve into true standalone emergency rooms and for ambulances to increasingly head there instead of to hospital ERs, particularly in the case of certain types of injuries (such as wounds or broken bones).

Instead of risking a car ride, we called an ambulance but it wasn't panic time or anything, simply a safety precaution.

Sophie is discharged from hospital the next day, and instead of being driven to Lyon by ambulance, her mother drives her to me and our son, phew!

Martins said the report was irresponsible in suggesting Nassau could save the most money — up to $ 15 million annually — by contracting with a private ambulance company instead of using police department staff.

She wants to see common - sense money - savers like moving the county away from paper paychecks and to direct deposit and paying civilians, instead of costly county cops, to drive ambulances.

«As a St John's blue light ambulance driver, Gillian has seen first - hand the extent of the crisis caused by this Conservative government, which has chosen to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest instead of our health service.

In a statement, Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric González said, «Instead of calling an ambulance or offering aid, this defendant heartlessly left the scene after allegedly striking and killing a beloved member of the community.

Instead, they argued that the officer shouldn't have had his finger on the trigger of his gun as he patrolled the Louis Pink Houses — and that he should have tried to help resuscitate Gurley, or at least call him an ambulance, as soon as he saw the young man was shot.

Such instruments don't actually watch stars jiggle in the sky; instead they precisely measure the color of the star's light, which becomes bluer or redder as a planet tugs its star closer to or farther from Earth, similar to the Doppler shift that changes the pitch of an ambulance's siren as it approaches and speeds past.

It is like building a fence at the top of a cliff, instead of stationing a tow - truck and an ambulance beside the rocks below.

Instead, I drove my friend on the back seat of my bike to the closest village, where I knocked on the first door asking some old man on my broken Spanish to call an ambulance.