Re: 'No Go' areas for Ambulances
Originally Posted by
Longdogs
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It is also wrong that they have to deal with abusive patients. I would up and leave them to suffer but that's why I am not a paramedic.
Apparently many of the assaults are carried out by people on drink and drugs.
I still can't understand it though. I remember getting pretty legless once in my youth, but I learned not to do it again, and even then, it certainly never made me want to rush out and thump or spit at a paramedic!
I have never tried drugs so have no experience of that, but do they always make people violent?
It'll end up like the prison officers soon.
So many of them are attacked now that people, understandably, don't want the job any more.
Then where would we be with fewer and fewer paramedics?