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On-Job Assaults of EMS Workers Take a Dual Toll, Unions Say

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 6/18/21

Emergency Medical Technician Ricardo Cervoni did not see it coming when an irate man in the emergency room at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn May 28 pushed him from behind, smashing his face into the metal frame of a plexiglass coronavirus partition, breaking his nose and lacerating his face.

"Essentially, this patient bugged out because he didn't get a bed and he was there I don't know how long," the 28-year-old said during a phone interview. 

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