They become paramedics to help. But they are facing violence, threats, sex assaults [Video]

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He started taking first aid courses in high school and that ignited a lifelong passion to help those in need.

Duncan Pelley is now a paramedic in Metro Vancouver, helping people every day.

“From the day I started this job till today, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world,” he said.

But Pelly, a primary care paramedic said he thinks the public would be stunned to find out about the violence they face on the job every day.

“I’ve been called every name in the book, been shoved by patients, been yelled at that I don’t know how to do my job, that I’m not helping them,” he told Global News.

“An elderly guy almost punched me in the face… We’re on the front line. We show up to people’s residences and everything at the …