Just be glad you're not in Israel. People call for ambulances for two reasons which have nothing to do with emergencies: (1) if they take themselves to A&E the health fund won't pay unless they are admitted to hospital (the health funds run walk-in clinics but the waits are usually long), and (2) if it is on a Sabbath or Jewish holiday a religious Jew cannot ride in any conveyance unless it is a life-or-death emergency. He doesn't have to decide whether he's dying or not, but going in an ambulance makes it an "emergency" (Even so, I've known religious Jews, supposedly really ill, to specify a "non-Jewish driver" when calling for an ambulance, because it's religiously "better".