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.
Sept. 1, 2020

What Happens When The Health Coach Gets Cancer?

What Happens When The Health Coach Gets Cancer?

Today on the show, I welcome Andrea Ottaiano, recovering agency, Pharma, and media veteran, research junkie, health coach, Founder of Silver Lining Holistic Health AND — if that’s not enough — 13-year survivor of breast cancer, liver cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma. So what happens with the Health Coach gets cancer? When the professional becomes the patient? That is a “both sides of the coin” story to tell, and she’s got a good one. We also rage on about how the jargon of “Whole Patient Cancer” — which to its credit has come quite far — has a long way to go as far as addressing the mental, physical, nutritional, practical, and cultural needs IN COMPLEMENT TO the self-evident biological needs. We also debate the vagaries beyond the Ricola Alpine Horn of “Just be Your own advocate!” — because it ain’t always that easy. Plus, a dip in the WTF pool of “super health organic vegan peak performance athlete specimens also die from cancer,” so does it simply come down to “try to be healthy” and “shit happens?”

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Today on the show, I welcome Andrea Ottaiano, recovering agency, Pharma, and media veteran, research junkie, health coach, Founder of Silver Lining Holistic Health AND — if that’s not enough — 13-year survivor of breast cancer, liver cancer, and cholangiocarcinoma. So what happens with the Health Coach gets cancer? When the professional becomes the patient? That is a “both sides of the coin” story to tell, and she’s got a good one. We also rage on about how the jargon of “Whole Patient Cancer” — which to its credit has come quite far — has a long way to go as far as addressing the mental, physical, nutritional, practical, and cultural needs IN COMPLEMENT TO the self-evident biological needs. We also debate the vagaries beyond the Ricola Alpine Horn of “Just be Your own advocate!” — because it ain’t always that easy. Plus, a dip in the WTF pool of “super health organic vegan peak performance athlete specimens also die from cancer,” so does it simply come down to “try to be healthy” and “shit happens?”

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