Patient stories
Each story follows one person through the part of treatment they found hardest to prepare for — the plateau, the invoice, the week they nearly stopped.
Every person on this page is invented. These are illustrative composites written to demonstrate the design — not interviews, not testimonials, and not accounts of real people. Nothing here describes what treatment will do for you.
Daily weighing had become the whole of her self-assessment. Removing it was the first inte
I weigh once a month now, at the clinic, and I don't think about it in between. That's the change. Not the number.
A quarterly blood test is a photograph of a film. Continuous data showed what the photogra
I was managing something I couldn't see,
After eight months of stable readings, his team began carefully removing what had been add
After eight months of stable readings, his team began carefully removing what had been added over six years.
Phase one of her programme changed exactly two things. She found it insulting, then surviv
Phase one of her programme changed exactly two things. She found it insulting, then survivable, then permanent.
Nine people, twelve weeks, closed after week two. The design costs the service flexibility
You don't have to share. You just have to turn up nine times.
Twenty weeks in, everything stopped moving. What the team did about it was mostly nothing.
Nobody did anything clever,
