No ambulance please, they're British

No ambulance please, they're British :

"The YouGov poll has also revealed 64 per cent of people experiencing heart attack symptoms would ring their partner, friend, relative, doctor or NHS Direct - the National Health Service's telephone network - rather than call an ambulance."

Is it just the British or is it people who have heart attacks? Maybe they call a loved one for reassurance because emotionally that is more important to them. Maybe they think it's not true and it won't be believed. My father's first heart attack was diagnosed as indigestion and he was sent home with a bottle of Mylanta...so he and Mum made a trip to Sydeny where he had a very serious heart attack and managed to survive it and was hospitalised away from the support of friends and family and Mum was there carrying the weight of all of that. I am curious to know what is going on in their heads. The people I know seem to fall into the categories of they know for sure it's a heart attack and then those who are not sure...one of whom had a quadruple bypass!! That person had no real idea of how serious it was and just said they felt unwell. So, I think it's time to go back to basics. Back to raising the awareness of symptoms, back to establishing the right protocols, back to rethinking how we approach this so that those having heart attacks will ring the ambulance!!