@Bathroom12345
It always surprises me as well that people wait hours and hours for an ambulance. I would get in my car, ask a neighbour, or even call a taxi.
If it that urgent I certainly wouldn’t be waiting around for an ambulance.
If it was really serious once you got to the hospital then you would be triaged in.
Just waiting for the doom and gloomers who say they don’t have a car, and cannot ask their neighbours etc etc.
You can't always get someone in a car.
Friend's dc often dislocates his kneecap. He needs an ambulance for two reasons. Firstly he needs pain relief (normally gas and air) to move, secondly he can't bend his knee, so can't get into a normal car. When he was smaller you could just about pick him up and lie him in the back, but he's now over 6'.
Other things you don't want to move them for fear of causing more damage. Or because that sitting up could cause worse symptoms.
The time I was waiting for an ambulance that I talked about upthread, the lady in question was unconscious. We suspected stroke, but had no way of verifying that. Moving her could have been dangerous.
In her case, when she did gain consciousness, we did get her into a car and to the hospital, where, yes, she had had a stroke( and did recover).
But triaged in, yes, she was, it was only another 6 hours before she got seen, she was seen as high priority too. It's not just about getting an ambulance. It's also about when you get there too.
I also know someone who was driving their child to hospital, got stuck in a traffic jam on the way into the car park, looked back and realised that they'd stopped breathing. They grabbed their child and ran (got a parking ticket too). The hospital told them off for trying to drive in, as if they hadn't looked back and realised at that moment then it could easily have been too late.