Shocking footage has emerged of a patient viciously abusing ambulance staff who were trying to help him.
Paramedics rushed to the scene of a crash where a male motorcyclist and a female passenger were flung from the bike after being struck by a car in Adelaide on Monday.
Ambulance staff were trying to treat the injured man, who suffered a broken leg, but suddenly he turned on paramedics and launched into a tirade of abuse.
"Ahhhh you f***ing idiot. Ahhhh move me, f***ing move me," the rider yelled at the paramedic.
According to 7 News, the angry patient initially refused painkillers before being placed on a stretcher.
But the altercation worsened after a female paramedic told the injured patient to "stop swearing now, seriously mate".
As a male paramedic tried to assure the injured rider that they were there to help, the injured patient yelled "Get the f*** off me... Get off me, dog".
It's not the first time ambulance staff have been abused or assaulted.
In May a young Kiwi paramedic in Melbourne lifted the lid on the threats and assaults dished out from patients she was trying to help.
Former Wellington resident Steff Dewhurst said her dream job became the ultimate nightmare when she was punched by a patient.
"I hadn't even been in the job for 6 months before my first assault where I was punched in the face by a patient," she wrote on social media.
Dewhurst said that the incident left her "rattled to the core" and was one of the only times she had "genuinely felt terror".
"Another patient told me he was going to stalk me. He detailed how he was going to find out where I lived, attack me, rape me and then strangle me to death.
"He was escorted from the hospital.. and waited for me in the ambulance bay. As I walked outside to make the stretcher he came for me, yelling. I have never run so fast in my life.
"I had nightmares for weeks. It rattled me to my absolute core and to this day, I still remember my heart racing as I ran from him. It's one of the few times I have genuinely felt terror. I was too afraid to walk back to the ambulance so my colleagues walked me to the truck so we could leave the hospital."
In March an ambulance officer was taken to hospital after being punched by a patient.
He was one of two ambulance officers, a man and a woman, who were assaulted while attending a routine callout to New Brighton in Christchurch
St John Canterbury operations manager Dion Rosario said at the time: "This is not an acceptable thing to happen given that they are there to save lives and help the public.