The mayor boasts that the average ambulance turnaround time, the time from summons to delivery of the patient, has been reduced this year for top-priority emergencies  This is a serious misrepresentation  This reduction was produced simply by redefining top priority   Such emergencies used to include gunshot wounds and electrocutions, the most time-consuming cases
Now they are limited strictly to heart attacks and strokes
One half of all of last year's top-priority emergencies were gunshot wounds and electrocution cases.