Episodes

Jan. 10, 2023

It's My 27-Year Cancerversary Episode!

As a college senior, I was diagnosed with what doctors thought could be terminal brain cancer. That was 27 years ago TODAY: January 10th, 2023. No guests. Just me. Reflecting on what was, what is, and what may be. If life were easy, we'd all do it. How the hell am I still here? I have no idea. But …
Dec. 27, 2022

AMA (Ask Matt Anything) with Carly Flumer

Returning champion to Out of Patients, advocacy badass Carly Flumer flips the script on Matthew Zachary as she takes the reins for an AMA (Ask Matt Anything) reverse interview. Hilarity ensues as we take a trip down memory lane as to how the sausage was made, the very origins of Stupid Cancer and t…
Dec. 20, 2022

What Exactly Does “Innovative Healthwear” Mean?

Chaitenya Razdan "Chat" is the Founder and CEO at Care+Wear, an innovative healthwear fashion brand offering more medically appropriate clothing to cancer patients and medical professionals. Having first met Chat in 2015 at Stupid Cancer conference in Denver, his idea has gone international, reachi…
Dec. 13, 2022

There’s a Cancer App for That

Charlie Coltman is the Founder and CEO of Cancerlife, an innovative free mobile app designed to improve quality-of-life for cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. Cancerlife is first cancer app-validated Randomized control trial to raise QoL. A varsity soccer athlete and pre-internet digital h…
Dec. 6, 2022

Who Are The Ad Wizards?

Jonah Comstock is the Editor in Chief of pharmaphorum, and a veteran healthcare journalist and reporter. He's been covering this topic even before this topic was a thing to be covered. Throughout his career, he has helped to shape significant narratives about the sector, what matters today, and whe…
Nov. 29, 2022

When The Serial Entrepreneur Becomes The Patient Advocate

An economist turned diagnostician, Mette Dhyrberg took matters into her own hands, hacked her own health, and soon began helping others do the same. Mette is the Founder and CEO of MyMee, a digital health platform that identifies the unique dietary and environmental factors that drive mild, moderat…
Nov. 24, 2022

[BONUS] The Gratitude Show with Koby and Hannah

While America has a complicated history worth acknowledging, Thanksgiving, at least for my family and me, is a holiday dedicated to gratitude and tolerance. On today's special bonus minisode, I'm joined once again by my miracle twins, Koby and Hannah, to talk about what we are thankful for this yea…
Nov. 22, 2022

Musical Theater Nerd Patient Advocates Unite: Jennifer "Jay" Palumbo

On today's quirky show, I welcome Jen Palumbo, an epic human Energizer Bunny who takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Jen is a freelance writer, Forbes contributor, and women's health advocate, specifically for reproductive rights. In a spirited coincidence, it turns out we both went to the same c…
Nov. 17, 2022

Introducing the "Before We Die" Podcast from OffScrip Health

Today I am joined by Ariel Nachmann and Joey Brenneman, co-producers from the offscrip network and also the hype team behind the all-new Before We Die podcast from OffScrip Health! Although the title sounds a bit macabre, this show is all about saving lives with emerging technology. We’re here to f…
Nov. 15, 2022

[BONUS] SportsCancer Recap: AVBCC 2022 Conference

In today's bonus episode of Out of Patients, I welcome back to the studio returning champion Gail Zahtz. We recently attended a super wonky, jargon-filled trade show, and we're here to break it all down for you—the listener— in ordinary human lay speak. The Association for Value-Based Cancer Care (…
Nov. 10, 2022

The Cancer Mavericks Series Finale: If History Teaches Us Anything

Welcome to the series finale of The Cancer Mavericks. In this final episode, we reflect on the first seven episodes through the lens of history and progress with a series of insightful conversations featuring some of healthcare's most influential and visionary voices across the past four decades. I…
Nov. 8, 2022

How to be Sick: The Just Diagnosed Guides

Today, I proudly welcome my cancer survivor comrade at arms, Jen Singer. Jen's got the trifecta of "shit happens," having survived cancer, heart failure, and "COVID Classic" back in February of 2020 when no one had any idea what the hell was going on. She is the creator of "How To Be Sick," patient…
Nov. 3, 2022

White House Cancer Moonshot Coordinator Danielle Carnival, Ph.D.

I was privileged to welcome Dr. Danielle Carnival, White House Cancer Moonshot Coordinator, to the studio. We talked about the President's priorities, principal directives, and legislative strategies, as well as what Americans can look forward to in the coming months and years through this ambitiou…
Nov. 1, 2022

From Pinterest to Glioblastoma Research

Today on the show, I welcome Vikram Bhaskaran, and Dr. Rohan Ramakrishna (Chief of Neurological Surgery at New York Presbyterian) live in-studio to talk about Roon, their intriguing new cancer navigation platform for patients and caregivers. Roon is personal to Vikram as his whole career shifted fr…
Oct. 27, 2022

[THROWBACK] Pay the Patients: It's Time to Compen$ate Patients for Their Experience

Today we’re dropping a very special throwback to an early episode of Out of Patients. Too often, patients are blatantly taken advantage of by Industry who profit off of our stories and our experience dealing with a disease we didn't ask to have. If our experience is so critical to Industry's botto…
Oct. 25, 2022

Getting Endlessly Misdiagnosed Is Fabulous!

The amazing Victoria Fenton joins me today from across the pond in England to share one of the greatest British accents I've ever welcomed to the program. Well, that and the fabulous feeling when you know something is wrong with your body, and no medical professional will take you seriously while r…
Oct. 20, 2022

[THROWBACK] The Heart of Healthcare with Mark Cuban

Today we’re dropping a very special throwback to a bonus episode of Out of Patients. Out of Patients is just one of many shows on the OffScrip Health network – and we want to make sure all of our excellent podcasts are on your radar! The Heart of Healthcare is a show that explores the social deter…
Oct. 18, 2022

Why Clinical Trial Enrollment Sucks

My guest today is Dr. Selin Kurnaz, Founder and CEO of Massive Bio, a company that is as impressive as it sounds. Its mission is to solve one of the single most critical scathing holes in healthcare: the "last mile" of clinical trial enrollment. What does that mean? You'll find out during our conve…
Oct. 13, 2022

HEALTH CARELESS // Stressbop, Snakes, and SCOTUS

Mat The W and Elura Thou Nanos talk about celebrity musician forays into mental health advocacy, doctors doing really bad things and recent SCOTUS arguments on California's pork regulations. Oink! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr…
Oct. 11, 2022

From Paperboy to Rare Disease Advocate

On the show today, Matthew is joined live in-studio by Larry Reines, a young adult rare disease advocate and Founding Member of the Aaron Myer Consulting Group. From humble beginnings as a 12-year-old paperboy learning the ropes of supply chain, customer service, and accounting, his life took a nas…
Oct. 6, 2022

HEALTH CARELESS // Monkeypox Rates, PrEP Accessibility and the GOP’s New Take on the ACA

Elura and Matthew are joined by PrEP advocate and Tub Talks host Damon Jacobs, LMFT to give a monkeypox update and discuss two stories relating to the Affordable Care Act. Damon also tells his own story of trying to access the monkeypox vaccine in New York earlier this summer. Here are the three e…
Oct. 5, 2022

[BONUS] Introducing the Beyond the Paper Gown Podcast Hosted by Dr. Mitzi Krockover

In today's special bonus episode, Matthew welcomes the venerable Dr. Mitzi Krockover to the show. Mitzy is a board-certified internist, former VP of Women's health at Humana, and the Founding Medical Director of the Iris Cantor-UCLA Women's Health Center. What makes this episode even more remarkabl…
Oct. 4, 2022

How To Be Your Own Medical Experiment

Dr. David Fajgenbaum is many things, but for the purposes of this episode, let's just say he went from an all-star college athlete to being read his last rites in a matter of weeks. In addition to his tenure as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UPenn's Perelman School of Medicine, David is the …
Sept. 29, 2022

HEALTH CARELESS // Birth Control Upticks, CDC Tomfoolery and One Hospital's Fuckery

Matthew Zachary and Elura Nanos discuss an uptick in longterm birth control use by teens, how the CDC is subtly changing its COVID messaging in plain sight, and how one hospital in Virginia deserves lots of attention for the fuckery it's caused its patients. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com…