13 Aug 2025 5 min read

340 Million Americans. One Person Protecting Their Lives.

If law enforcement won’t enforce the law, then I will.

I am a homeless, sick, and broke American woman — and I am the only one holding America accountable to its own laws.

That isn’t exaggeration. Out of 340 million people in this country, it’s just me — a woman in a tent — doing the job that elected officials, police, and regulators are paid to do.
I didn’t take an oath. I don’t have a badge.
But I still did their work this week, because if I didn’t, nobody would.

What Happened in the ER

Last month, I walked into Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley with blood sugar so high I could have gone into a coma at any moment — 650 mg/dL.
I had no insulin, no refrigeration, and my A1C showed I’d been averaging ~300 mg/dL for months — a chronic, life-threatening state.

Under federal EMTALA law, hospitals must stabilize anyone in an emergency, regardless of insurance or housing status. Instead:

Dr. Chan refused to even read the legal-medical letter requesting stabilization.
Dr. Adrian Thomas told me “people with Type 2 diabetes don’t die from hyperglycemia” — a statement so medically false it would flunk a first-year med student.
Then came the confession: this is their emergency room policy. Thomas said they discharge patients in this state “often” and claimed “it’s not illegal.”

They sent me out with blood sugar still at 303 mg/dL, no insulin, no way to store it, and no real follow-up care.

The Intimidation Playbook

Security guards came and went five times, three different men:

The white male guard came in twice, told me I had to “be nice to the doctor” to get treatment.
The tall Black male guard admitted he was there because “the doctor asked me to step in” — confirming physician-ordered intimidation.
The third guard walked me out as if I were a threat, while my actual threat — lethal hyperglycemia — went untreated.

I’ve got over 550 public videos calmly facing down a sociopathic, violent ex-con who was trying to rape and kill me — I know how to stay calm under threat.
This was retaliation for asserting my rights, plain and simple.

The Fake Help

After refusing treatment, a case worker and social worker handed me a paper: Call 211 for services.
I told them I’ve already proven those “services” don’t exist in practice.
They also suggested BACS — a group I’ve documented in over 600 videos as a corrupt, taxpayer-funded criminal operation complicit in the deaths of women.

This isn’t care.
It’s a cover story — a paper trail of “resources” that don’t work, so they can dump patients back into the street and call it discharge.

This Is Not One Hospital

We keep acting like America is falling into lawlessness.
The truth is, we’ve been living in it.
You can’t “fall” into what you already are.

A country where hospitals have official policies to break federal law in ways that kill people — and face zero consequences — is already a lawless country.
And in a lawless country, whoever has the most power is the dictator, whether they’re wearing a military uniform, a suit, or a white coat.

Alta Bates is not a rogue outlier. This is how the machinery works nationwide:

If you are uninsured, unhoused, or just “not nice” to the doctor, you are disposable.
Stabilization is optional.
Death is an acceptable outcome.
The targets are chosen because they aren’t worth the resources and probably wouldn’t be able to catch them breaking the law.
And the only consequence for the institution is how quickly they can get you out the door.

Why This Matters

If I were the only one, maybe this would just be my personal hell.
But I am not.

Every day, people walk into ERs with treatable, life-threatening conditions — and walk out sicker, closer to death, because someone decided they weren’t worth the resources and probably wouldn’t be able to catch them breaking the law.

There are 340 million people in this country.
Thousands of agencies, regulators, and police forces whose sole purpose — and whose taxpayer-funded salaries — exist to enforce the law.

And this week, the only person who actually did it was me.

The Record

On the same day Alta Bates tried to kill me by policy, I filed my complaint with:

EMTALA enforcement at CMS
California Department of Public Health
The Medical Board of California
Sutter Health corporate legal and risk management

I’m still here. I’m still telling you exactly what’s happening.

But if this system is going to stop killing people, more than one person out of 340 million is going to have to care enough to act.

If you want to live in a country where hospitals aren’t legally allowed to kill you by policy, you’d better start acting like it.

From the Filed Incident Report

“This is our emergency room policy.”
— “Chris” Emergency Room Administrator, Alta Bates Medical Center ER, explaining why patients in active medical crisis are discharged without stabilization.

“Be nice to the doctor if you want him to treat you.”
— White male Alta Bates security guard, during an active EMTALA medical emergency.

“No, you couldn’t [die] — people with Type 2 diabetes don’t die of hyperglycemia.”
— Dr. Adrian Thomas, to a patient with blood sugar of 650 mg/dL and an A1C averaging ~300 mg/dL for the past 3 months.

“No… just the doctor asked me to step in.”
— Tall Black male Alta Bates security guard, when asked if his presence was to intimidate the patient. This confirms doctor-ordered security intimidation with no safety justification.

After refusing treatment, a case worker and social worker handed the patient a sheet instructing her to Call 211. The patient had already proven these services don’t function in practice. They also suggested BACS — an organization she has documented in over 600 videos as a corrupt, taxpayer-funded criminal operation complicit in the deaths of women.

Read the full, unredacted incident report filed with CMS, the California Department of Public Health, the Medical Board of California, and Sutter Health: [August Incident Report at Alta Bates Hospital for Jodi Schiller]

Your Move.

If you read this and do nothing, you are part of the reason they get away with it.
Here’s what to do — today:

Contact the agencies I’ve already filed with — tell them you’re aware of these EMTALA violations and you expect action:
- CMS Region IX EMTALA Enforcement: QASanFrancisco@cms.hhs.gov
- California Dept. of Public Health: ACB-LNC-Complaints@cdph.ca.gov
- Medical Board of California: complaint@mbc.ca.gov
- Sutter Health Corporate Compliance: corporatecompliance@sutterhealth.org
Call or email journalists — especially those covering health care, homelessness, and corruption. Send them this article. Ask them why they aren’t covering it.
Contact your lawmakers — federal, state, and local — and demand an investigation into Sutter Health/Alta Bates ER policy. Tell them you’re watching how they respond.
Alert watchdog groups — patient advocacy orgs, legal aid clinics, ACLU, ProPublica tip line — anywhere that tracks institutional abuse.
Share this story in every space you can reach: social media, community groups, union lists, faith groups, neighborhood forums. If this could happen to me, it could happen to you.