CASE STUDY #3

Kelley Gumbs, 45, an emergency medical technician, said he’s been attacked three times by patients in recent years.

He recalled responding to a 911 call to treat an intoxicated man, who was homeless, at the Eastern Parkway subway station in Brooklyn.

Gumbs said the patient was initially “cool with us” but he got agitated after being sent to Kings County Hospital and told that it didn’t have a detox unit to treat him.

“He flipped on me. He said, ‘You’re a liar.’ I apologized to him. I helped him back into the bed in the ER and he socked me in the mouth,” Gumbs said.

“I’m tired of being attacked. I’m tired of my brothers and sisters being attacked.”