“The government is spending more than $1.3 million on an education campaign to remind the public not to treat health workers as punching bags, after 3300 assaults in the past year alone.” (31 March 2016)
Click here and scroll down the page to watch two of the ads subsequently aired on Australian TV.
Strange thing though … no violent and abusive women are featured in the ads, despite the fact that such people most certainly do exist in real life. I very much doubt that was an accidental omission. Think about why such a decision might that have been made.
There might well be fewer incidents involving women, though I would be interested in seeing the stats in relation to the sex ratio of males v females treated/transported and then the percentage of each that were abusive.
Personally, I suspect that the decision to only show violent men is less about patient ratios and more about social conditioning with respect to how society perceives men and women, and the threat they pose.
Here are three incidents in the first half of 2016 involving female perpetrators assaulting paramedics:
“A WOMAN has stabbed a paramedic on Fraser Island after trying to force him to hand over drugs.” (Source)
“A 21-year-old woman has been charged over the alleged assault of a paramedic sent to a Brisbane pub to help her. The 41-year-old female ambulance officer suffered cuts her arms and swelling and bruising to her face in the alleged drunken assault at Toowong’s Regatta Hotel.” (Source) (Postscript: This case went to court in August 2017 and the perpetrator was found ‘not guilty’)
“As the ambulance passed through the Legacy Way tunnel en route to the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital she allegedly attacked the 51-year-old ambulance officer, kicking him in the groin and punching him in the head.” (Source)
Anger after two Cairns paramedics allegedly come under attack while on the job (31 October 2016)
Melbourne mothers beg magistrate to spare them jail after attacking paramedic (8 September 2017)
“Experienced ambulance worker Paul Judd has not been able to return to work since the violent attack in April 2016 and has required multiple surgeries on his foot.
Amanda Warren, 31, and Caris Underwood, 20, have admitted punching and kicking Mr Judd as he and another paramedic tried to treat a patient in Reservoir.
They have both pleaded guilty to intentionally causing injury, while Warren has also admitted criminally damaging the ambulance by ramming it with a car.”
See also:
Paramedic allegedly assaulted after man found dead in home (4 October 2024)
Women arrested after police officer allegedly bitten in CBD (30 May 2022)
Expecting young mum spits on ‘gronk’ paramedic, abuses ‘incompetent’ nurses (8 December 2021)
‘Distressed’ woman attacked paramedic with blade after flagging down ambulance – Mirror Online (2 August 2021)
Police officer, 36, paralysed for life after drunk woman kicked him on duty (25 April 2020) UK
999: What’s your emergency? (22 February 2020) An episode of a UK TV series
Paramedic cuts diamond ring from dead woman’s finger and pawns it, cops say (14 November 2019) Whoops, looks like even female paramedics can be bad too.
Glamorous teen assaults paramedic she calls ‘a white dog’ (1 June 2018). And Leilani Clarke is back in the paper in May 2019 and still being referred to, by the same female journalist, as “glamorous“. Not in my book! And back in court again in July 2019, and again in April 2020. I don’t believe it, Candace Sutton refers to her as ‘glamorous‘ again in May 2020. #FacePalm
Pensioner, 68, grabs crotch of paramedic treating her for a fall and asks, ‘How big is it?’ | Daily Mail Online (11 July 2019)
Furious paramedics protest decision not to jail women who beat ambulance worker (16 May 2018) Gee, female judge too – fancy that.
Nurses and patient at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital stabbed in face by woman with scissors (5 May 2019)
Mums’ ‘vicious’ assault on paramedic lands them in prison (12 December 2017)
Other posts in this blog relevant to this post include:
On violence carried out by women and girls
How men are portrayed … Haw Haw Haw! The jokes on us
Differing public response to partner violence depending on gender of victim
While not working directly in a hospital, I often walk through or near the A&E department of a large teaching hospital in Perth. Females certainly bang their hands on the security glass screens or chuck furniture around while screaming foul abuse at other patients. The security guards (and it’s all male guards in the dangerous areas) seem reluctant to grapple with these ‘ladies’ because they know a sexual molestation or excessive force charge is quite likely.
I would imagine that the number of female on male assaults is under-reported because many men would be ridiculed for complaining of being attacked by a girl. Such a story would become the ‘giggle item’ after the weather report on many feminist controlled networks now.