Ah, the good ol' Taylor Ambulance. I ran with TA from '74-'92 and it was an expirience. I wish I could say I wasn't one of the people that mistreated patients, but I can't. Unfortunately, a lot of us got burned out around the same time, maybe back around 88 and the patients pretty much bore the brunt of it. At that time we did a lot of running in Highland Park and detriot, but a good portion of my time was on the Belleville truck. All that said, we weren't the most professional of EMT's, although I'm guessing most private ems providers weren't at that time, with it being a new industry and that. I remember one of our guys telling a guy who had been shot and was still conscious that he was going to die, and I cringed but probably said worse things.
Your post brought back a lot of memories, good and bad.