This is not a secret but isn’t well known:

Getting an ambulance ride doesn’t get you seen at the hospital faster. They just triage you (sort you by severity) like everyone else. You can get an ambulance ride for a broken finger and then sit in the waiting room for 6 hours, having just wasted the money on an ambulance.

Call an uber or get driven/drive yourself.

Edit: Yes people, if you’re having an emergency definitely DO call and ambulance, and you probably WILL get seen right away.

However, you’re not being seen right away BECAUSE you took the ambulance, you’re being seen right away because you’re critically ill/injured. If someone were to drive you while you’re having a heart attack (which I DO NOT recommend) then you would be seen right away as well. It’s an injury severity thing not an ambulance vs taxi thing.

Part of my job had to do with meeting clients to help them complete paperwork for their own benefit, but appointments were often back to back. Be on time, for pete's sake. Whenever you waltz in is not when I will see you, so be prepared to make another appointment.

Here's a very simple suggestion for John and Jane Q. Customer... READ SIGNS!! I'm not talking about ads and whatnot, but ones informing the public of something, where to go, etc.

For years my pin number was the radio frequency of an old rock station that no longer exists. I used that pin for like 10 years, then one night, watching Futurama. Fry says the pin for his debit card, the price of a slice of pepperoni and a large coke or something like that, 10.77.....MF just blurts out MY SPECIAL PIN NUMBER THAT ONLY I KNEW!! Had to change it after that. The station btw was 107.7 The End, an old alternative rock station out of Seattle.