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JAN i 1989 <br />BOOlc <br />754 <br />ARTICLE 1: Duties of the physician: <br />The physician shall be the Medical Director of the Indian River <br />County Emergency Medical Services System. <br />The Medical Director shall supervise arid accept responsibility <br />for the medical performance of the emergency medical technicians <br />and paramedics. when functioning under the written protocol for the <br />Emergency Medical System. <br />The Medical Director shall provide the following services: <br />1. Consult in planning for emergency medica-1 services pro- <br />vided by the Indian River County Emergency Medical <br />Services including recommendation for the provision <br />of vehicles, equipment, supplies, distribution of resources, <br />personnel, emergency medical technician training and <br />utilization of medical facilities. <br />2. Consult in the coordination of training of emergency <br />medical technicians, including testing and certification <br />procedures in conformance with the laws and regulations <br />promulgated by the State of Florida and municipal govern- <br />ment. <br />3. Conduct periodic review sessions with Emergency Medical <br />Services personnel in regard to medical management of <br />individual medical rescue cases. <br />4. Periodically ride ambulance with Emergency Medical <br />Services personnel and provide on-site personnel evaluation. <br />5. Coordinate the implementation of quality control pro- <br />cedures for monitoring the quality of emergency medical <br />care to the patients served by the Emergency Medical <br />Services System and coordinate the establishment of any <br />necessary data collection and research activities nec- <br />essary'to the implementation olf such a quality control <br />mechanism. <br />6. The physician will provide his own professional Medical <br />Malpractice Liability limits of $1,000,000/3,000,000 <br />of insurance as pertains to his function as Medical Director. <br />Should such professional liability insurance coverage for <br />the activities required by the Agreement become unavail- <br />able for any reason, or should the premium for such <br />professional liability insurance increase to an unaccept- <br />able cost level as determined by the physician, it is <br />understood that, subject to the termination provisions <br />• here, the parties may agree to renegotiate the reimburse- <br />ment schedule for services rendered. <br />28 <br />