EMS Rule of Team Transports:

The dispatch priority is directly proportional to the time spent in the transferring hospital with the patient. Low priority responses will be transported immediately. High priority responses

Corollary 1: If a member of the transport team sticks their head into the cab and asks you to turn on the lights and siren en route to the transferring hospital, that team will spend at least two hours packaging the patient for transport.

Corollary 2: NICU transport team members must put their hands on a piece of equipment at least three times before actually using that piece of equipment.

Corollary 3: All transport teams believe that ambulance lights and siren are capable of ripping a hole in the fabric of space time and instantaneously transporting an ambulance to the receiving hospital. And smoothly, I might add.

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