FDNY Paramedic Recovering After Being Attacked by Patient By Ron Lee Brooklyn SHARE A paramedic is speaking out after being attacked by a young patient, who she says bit her in the face. “No one realized that she bit me,” explained Jenna Piscitello, who has been an EMT with the Fire Department for seven years and a paramedic for nearly two years. “And I wasn’t screaming or anything like that because I was in shock, and I just wanted it to end, and then she finally let go.” What You Need To Know Paramedic claims to have been bitten for 45 to 60 seconds by a teenage patient