What Is Actually True
What do you cover?
Medicine, and everyone billing for it. Drug companies, insurers, hospital systems, the food industry, wellness brands, and the regulators who signed off on all of it. If it affects our health, it is on our beat.
Is any of this real?
Some of it. The reporting is invented. The receipt underneath is not: real clinical data or a live news report, cited to its source.
Why run satire and evidence in the same column?
Because the absurdity is the argument. A fact filed straight gets ignored. The same fact, filed as a wire story about an insurer denying a claim for insufficient grit, gets forwarded. The receipt is there so nobody has to take the joke on faith.
Who writes the dispatches?
The Editors at The Rogue Patient. No reporter is named because no reporter is real. The receipts are real and cited by name.
Who is Cat Clark?
The author of Fat Bitch: Killing the Willpower Myth. In the satire, she is a recurring character with a bullhorn. In a receipt that uses her books, she is a citation. We keep the two apart.
Do you name real companies?
Real companies and real institutions may appear in the satire layer, in the way any satirical publication names them. Real private individuals do not. Nothing here is a statement of fact about a named person.
Is this medical advice?
No. It is satire with footnotes. It is not a diagnosis, not a treatment plan, and not your clinician.