First and foremost: Never. Ever. Drive to the hospital if you are having chest pains.
The ambulance will get there faster and if you crash on the way, your wife would not be able to drive and help you at the same time.
My daughter is a paramedic who has picked up more bodies on the side of the road for exactly this reason.
Perhaps.. We’ll never know if they would have been faster or not.
Pretty sure if the ambulance wrecked along the way, we would have been worse off since it was likely the only one in the area.
Some folks don't have the $1500 bucks for the 15 mile ride.