I find it hard to accurately answer the "narrow" options of the poll.
My honest answer is that it depends on the situation. All of your prearrival preparation is done with information provided by the dispatcher -- so you begin to think, hmmm....this patient sounds sick, I'll take all the stuff or maybe, hmmmm smells like ca-ca, bring in the stair chair and lets get to the truck........
I think this entirely depends on exactly what type of patient you find yourself encountering. Does the patient need definitive care right then and there, or is your patient stable enough to be loaded to the truck? Decisions are actually made right then and there.
Where I work, we have guidelines (just like any ol EMT) that say to make our transport decision early (stay and play vs. load and go) but you kinda need to assess your patient first.
So I think the poll question should have a third option: "I assess my scene and patient and then decide where I am going to work."
Just my opinion
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