Filed Under “Water Is Wet”: DC FEMS Is Toxic

Well, yet another respected physician has resigned as Medical Director for that miserable semblance of an EMS system, DC FEMS (that’s pronounced “eff EMS”). The EMS landscape is littered with the professional corpses of talented medical directors who have tried, and failed, to polish that turd.

Jullette Saussy lasted only seven months, and she pulled no punches as to what is wrong with EMS in our nation’s capitol:

“The situation is grim and without immediate changes that include EMS medical leadership with teeth and authority, EMS will continue to be plagued by serious – but fixable – issues that result in the continuous, unnecessary loss of life.”

Go read the rest of the scathing indictment, and remind yourself that you never, EVER, want to need an ambulance in DC. I can only imagine how tough it must be for the medics trying to practice good medicine in that dysfunctional mess of an EMS system. The time to demolish it and start over arrived about ten years ago.

I say take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

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