Paramedics at risk from violent patients
For this story I'll call her Anna.
It's not her real name but I've been acquainted with her Fox Valley, Ill., family for many years and can say for certain how proud her mother was when her only daughter decided to become a paramedic.
She just loved helping people.
Anna still does. But when I spoke to her recently, the 28-year-old Yorkville woman told me going to her job with a west suburban hospital is giving her "increased anxiety" because of an incident that occurred
