Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
Matthew Zachary is the healthcare policy love child of Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, Thomas Paine, Ralph Nader, and Jerry Seinfeld. He has 19 years of receipts to prove it. Editorially independent. Answerable to no one. What started as The Stupid Cancer Show in 2007 became Out of Patients. The first online health podcast in America, predating the medium itself. Zachary survived brain cancer at 21, built the young adult cancer movement from scratch, and spent two decades channeling patient rage into something the system never saw coming. Now he is marching into Washington. Out of Patients goes where the comfortable shows will not. Politics. Healthcare policy. Economics. Institutional accountability. Consumer protection. The forces shaping what 330 million Americans can access, afford, and survive. Battle-scarred patients. Exhausted caregivers. Rare insiders brave enough to name what is killing us. And the occasional elected official about to find out what an organized patient constituency actually looks like. This is the show that started the conversation America is still not ready to finish.
Aug. 31, 2023

[BONUS] Episode 2: ASCO 2023 We The Patients: Julia, Myelofibrosis Patient Advocate

[BONUS] Episode 2: ASCO 2023 We The Patients: Julia, Myelofibrosis Patient Advocate

I sat down with this certified health educator named Julia who, after a storied career in that discipline, found herself in the patient's chair instead.

I sat down with this certified health educator named Julia who, after a storied career in that discipline, found herself in the patient's chair instead. So, she shared her both sides of the coin perspective on what it’s like to be an educator and then a patient and then the importance—the absolute utter importance—of self-advocacy as a person living with cancer. We talk about barriers to treatment all the time on this show and that means different things to different people.

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