In 2021, I experienced one of the most violent and degrading events of my life inside MarinHealth Medical Center. What happened was not a “miscommunication,” not a “behavioral incident,” and not a “low‑level concern.” It was assault — carried out by hospital staff, in a hospital setting, against a patient who posed no physical threat.
This is my record of what happened, and how every oversight body has tried to bury it.
The Incident
I walked past a staff member who directed a verbal slur at me — clear, intentional, and meant to provoke. I responded with a single word and returned to my room to cool off.
Moments later, 7–10 staff members rushed my door, shouting angrily, pounding, and escalating the situation into something terrifying. I held the door closed out of fear — because any reasonable person would. It was the only thing separating me from a wave of enraged toxic masculinity.
They forced their way in.
They grabbed me by the arms and legs — a method no legitimate medical training endorses — and compressed my spine like an accordion. They applied a chokehold that cut off my airflow for 15–20 seconds, long enough to make me nearly lose consciousness given my elevated HR. I couldn’t eat without pain for two weeks afterward. My pre‑existing lumbar pain was worsened.
This wasn’t “de‑escalation.”
This wasn’t “clinical restraint.”
This was rage, retaliation, and punishment.
There is no medical justification for choking a patient. None.
The Aftermath
I reported the incident. I documented it. I pursued every channel available.
And here is what the California Department of Public Health told me:
“We have determined that it does not rise to the level of an adverse event or high‑level incident.”
Choking a patient is “not serious.”
A mob of staff violently dragging someone is “not serious.”
A slur from an employee is “not serious.”
They referred me to The Joint Commission — the accrediting body responsible for oversight.
The Joint Commission responded with a form letter explaining that because more than three years had passed, they would not review the case. They would simply “monitor trends.”
In other words:
No one is responsible. No one is accountable. No one is even interested.
The Reality
The thugs and medical fascists who assaulted me likely still work there. They likely still treat patients. They likely still believe they can act with impunity because oversight bodies have demonstrated exactly that: impunity is the norm… until someone like Luigi shows the fuck up.
They behaved the way they did because they assumed:
- no one would report it
- no one would believe it
- no one would investigate it
- no one would expose them
Well, I’m still here.
It happened.
And I’m documenting it publicly.
Why This Matters
Hospital abuse is not confined to underfunded systems or “elsewhere.” It happens in the so‑called “first world,” in affluent counties, in accredited facilities, under the watch of agencies that claim to protect patients.
When oversight bodies classify violent assault as “not serious,” they are not just failing — they are enabling.
And the public deserves to know.
Closing
I want MarinHealth Medical Center to acknowledge what happened. I want accountability. I want the people involved held responsible. I want the system that dismissed this as trivial to answer for its negligence.
This is not going away.
I am not going away. (They might, if any of them enjoy lunch at the wrong venue.)
And neither should the truth.