Here, one would rather call the police if there is a drunk lying in the street, and they would decide if he needs an ambulance or a cell (in which he would be seen after by a doc, anyway)

Mmh... Do you work on an ambulance or how do you know? Because it might be correct that the police gets called but then they call us cos they're scared who ever it is could die on them or whatever. The police in Germany are very good at calling us btw, that's why we don't like them very much. "Oh well, he's got a cut to his eye, let's call a "Rettungswagen" (ambulance)" In general people here do hesitate more and A&E departments are less crowded, but at the end of the day we get the same "oh my back's been hurting for 2 weeks" and "my nose has been running for 3 days" idiots *sorry*