Posted on 02/09/2016 8:02:01 PM PST by FoxInSocks
The D.C. fire department's medical director, hired last year to help reform an agency beset by failures in response times and patient care, is resigning, saying her proposals have been blocked and that "people are dying needlessly because we are moving too slow."
Jullette M. Saussy is ending her eight-month tenure by delivering a scathing indictment of the District's new fire chief and what she calls his refusal to end a culture of indifference that she contends endangers residents' lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Her attempts to implement reform of EMS into some semblance of professionalism and accountability have been stymied by fire management and the union.
If you are sick or injured in D.C., take a cab and call an ambulance once you're out of the city.
I'll hunt up a link to her 4-page letter.
For example, the department blocked her attempts to set up testing of EMS providers just to assess their baseline and see where they need further training.
So does D.C. have political correctness in their fire department? Fat boys that can’t carry victims out of buildings and little girls that can’t do the same and people that can’t read?
I’m somewhat with the station on Capitol Hill after stopping there one day. I didn’t notice anyone obviously out of shape. I did notice the engine looked like crap. I doubt anyone one there lifted a hand to shine it much less fix the rusty spots.
The problems with EMS in the capital are far, far worse than mere political correctness.
It’s always easier - and safer - to do nothing.
The letter is readily visible at
...people that can’t read CURSIVE.
White Doctor, Black Fire Chief. There’s your answer. No way he’s a gonna take no advice from a white whomon! Or as they say in Washington City Political Circles, “De Bitch Set Me Up!”
I’m waiting for the new Metro boss to write the same letter.
Expecting competence and accountability in DC?
Shes either naive or insane.
The problem is that emergency medical services to the citizens needs to be improved. The Fire Chief and the unions appear to be in DILLIGAS mode. Their attitude is that they are there to get paid, and expecting anything else is of no great concern.
Could it have something to do with putting, ahem, “diversity” ahead of competence? Just a wild guess.
HomeRule in DC has been an abject failure. Time to go back to the old city commissioner system.
Feel free to draw your own conclusions.
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