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My wife is a neuro ICU nurse and pages neurologists very frequently for late-night emergency procedures, so I fully understand the urgency that is so vital to saving the lives her patients. I have to say that I disagree a little bit with the posters who are saying that MDs should be allowed to speed excessively and quite possibly risk others' lives responding to an emergency call. Is there some kind of emergency, high speed driving school that on-call physicians attend as part of medical school? Not that I know of.. Of course, as in this case and others, common sense says that an on-call physician should be immediately allowed to safely proceed and attend to the patient requiring his skills. And, yes, neurosurgery is a very specialized field and not just any GP can perform these very unique procedures. I'm all for saving lives, but I am against risking the lives of others in the process.
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