Emergency Medical Services in Germany

Emergency Medical Service (Rettungsdienst) "Rescue Service" in Germany is a service of public pre-hospital emergency healthcare, including (but not limited to) ambulance service, provided by individual German cities and counties. It is primarily financed by the German health insurance companies.


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    “In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.”
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    “There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.”
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    “I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.”
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