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Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Aren't ED assaults just as bad as first responder assaults?
Description: The Government’s plan for tougher sentences for people who don’t think twice about assaulting first responders and corrections officers is great. But I think there are some other people who should be included. Doctors and nurses. These are the people who, it seems, can be at just as much risk of being attacked. It’s brilliant that the Government has got the ambulance paramedics in their thinking. But the threat doesn’t necessarily go away once they’ve dropped someone off in the emergency department. In fact, it could be argued that, at tim...