Out of Patients EP410: D.A.M.M. Good Trouble: Ann Marie Morse
Dr. Anne Marie Morse showed up to the studio like she was headlining her own off-Broadway neurology musical—and I mean that as a compliment. She’s a pediatric neurologist, sleep medicine badass, narcolepsy whisperer, and founder of DAMM Good Sleep. She's also a full-throttle Italian Jersey girl who speaks faster than I do and makes more sense doing it.
I wanted her on *Out of Patients* because sleep is still treated like an optional feature in our healthcare system. Like power windows. And nobody calls out the BS louder—or funnier—than she does. We talked apnea, naps, co-sleeping, melatonin abuse, and why “sleep hygiene” is the flossing advice of neurology. Also: airport nap pods, Carl Sagan, the DeLorean, and why LEGO can go screw for creating foot torture disguised as a toy.
She said it best: sleep isn’t a side effect of living. It’s the main character.
If you think feeling tired all the time is normal, you’re wrong. If your doctor gave you three minutes of advice and a brochure, they’re wrong. If your mattress is older than your car, you’re in trouble.
This episode is funny, raw, and full of truth bombs. Listen while awake.
Producer
Matthew Zachary invented healthcare podcasting before podcasting was a thing. In 2007, fresh off building Stupid Cancer, he grabbed a mic, launched The Stupid Cancer Show, and started broadcasting patient stories on internet talk radio when everyone else was still writing blogs.
19 years and 2000+ episodes later, Out of Patients is still the most unfiltered healthcare show anywhere.
Matthew does not do softball interviews. Brain cancer at 21 taught him that time is finite and bullshit is expensive. He gets guests to say things they would never tell Congress. CEOs admit what is broken. Patients name what actually hurts. Scientists explain what industry does not want you to know. The conversations other shows will not touch because of sponsor concerns or political correctness.
What makes him different: he has been on both sides of the mic. Featured in documentaries. Keynoted hundreds of conferences. Published in The Hill. Now marching into Washington with a national patient constituency behind him.
But he has also been the guy puking from radiation, fighting insurance denials, and watching friends die from paperwork.
That dual perspective creates interviews you will not hear anywhere else. He knows which questions make power squirm because he has asked them from hospital beds and boardrooms both.
No pre-approved questions. No PR handlers. No seven-minute segments. Just real conversations with people brave enough to tell the truth about American healthcare.
Still the show where whistleblowers go first. Still the show … Read More
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