Resuscitation in the prehospital phase is feasible. As intensivists, however, we know that many cases could reach our intensive care units (ICU's) in far better condition if prehospital care were improved. We have learned from feedback on our cases in the unit that we physicians are indeed the best prepared specialists for fast and efficient intervention outside the hospital. Diagnosis and, hence, titrated therapy are more and more transportable and, under acute conditions, it is often safer to transport medicine to the patient, rather than the patient to medicine. Technological problems are no longer an excuse for the doctor to refuse to go to the scene.