Doctor says fine aggressive patients: 'What we experience is very distressing'

An Emergency Medical Doctor is calling for fines to be imposed on patients who assault emergency department staff.

Dr Lisa Cunningham said that verbal assaults were now so commonplace that they were “water off a duck’s back” and that physical assaults vary from being spat at, being punched and kicked to being assaulted with objects such as clipboards “or any medical equipment that's around the department at that time.”