Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary is the longest-running, independent healthcare podcast.
Since 2007, Matthew’s been calling out the hypocrisy, hubris, and hostage-taking baked into American healthcare—with a mic in one hand and a middle finger in the other.
What started as a pirate radio rebellion is now the most trusted, notorious, and unfiltered show in the game. Patients love it. Industry listens. And anyone who’s ever been gaslit by the system knows exactly where to turn to nod their heads in shared rage.
Every episode delivers unsanitized stories, dark humor, policy takedowns, and angsty GenX truth bombs—told by the people living it, not spinning it.
It’s the show you love about the healthcare you hate.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 446
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
LEAD EP5: Redemption
After years of carrying the weight of lead, Shannon and Cooper find a path out from under the darkness and into the sunlight.
LEAD: how this story ends is up to us is an audio docudrama series that …
00:23:56 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
LEAD EP4: The Long Haul
The deficits from the lead poisoning continue to intensify, Shannon channels her anger and grief into holding the people who hurt her son responsible.
LEAD how this story ends is up to us is a true …
00:19:10 |
Tue 26 Aug 2025
LEAD EP3: Fraying at the Edges
The effects of the neurotoxin are taking their toll on Cooper as Shannon desperately tries to navigate the severity of their new reality.
LEAD how this story ends is up to us is a true story written…
00:22:32 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
LEAD EP2 : Stop the Spiral
As the lead wreaks havoc on Cooper's development, Shannon searches for answers. Desperate to get a handle on what was happening to her son, she grabs onto a lifeboat - nursing school. Andy tries to p…
00:11:30 |
Tue 12 Aug 2025
LEAD EP1: The Monster in the Walls
A mysterious dust fills a young family’s apartment. The truth begins to unravel when the mother gets a call from the pediatrician - the monster deep within the walls has been unleashed.
LEAD how th…
00:22:39 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Meet My Grief: Notes from an Orphaned Teen
Lexi Silver is 15 years old. She lost both of her parents before she turned 11. That should tell you enough—but it doesn’t. Because Lexi isn’t here for your pity. She’s not a sob story. She’s not a t…
00:43:41 |
Tue 29 Jul 2025
The Cancer Fun House: Michele Andrews
Michelle Andrews built a career inside the pharma machine long before anyone knew what “DTC” meant. She helped launch Rituxan and watched Allegra commercials teach America how to ask for pills by nam…
00:41:39 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
D.A.M.M. Good Trouble: Ann Marie Morse
Dr. Anne Marie Morse walks into the studio like a one-woman Jersey Broadway show and leaves behind the best damn TED Talk you’ve never heard. She’s a neurologist, sleep medicine doc, narcolepsy exper…
00:43:12 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
The Elastic Life of Gigi Robinson
Gigi Robinson grew up with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disease that turns your joints into overcooked spaghetti. Instead of letting it sideline her, she built a career out of telling the truth about in…
00:46:02 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
The Bronx Bleeds Blue: Vanessa Ghigliotty vs. Everyone
Episode Description:
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a Bronx-born pediatric nurse with stage 4 colon cancer survives, raises a kid, becomes a policy shark, and fights like hell for the ign…
00:49:41 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
Ask Better Questions or Die Trying: Risa Arin
Risa Arin doesn’t just talk about health literacy. She built the damn platform. As founder and CEO of XpertPatient.com (yes, expert with no E), Risa’s taking a wrecking ball to how cancer education i…
00:39:21 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
Pediatric Engineering for the Rest of Us: Dr. Jamie Wells
Dr. Jamie Wells is back—and this time, she brought a book. We cover everything from biomedical design screwups to the glorified billing software known as the EHR. Jamie's new book, A Clinical Lens on…
00:39:48 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Pinky Swear: Erica Campbell and The Wanted Mastectomy
Erica Campbell walked away from corporate life, took a hard left from the British Embassy, and found her calling writing checks for families nobody else sees. As Executive Director of Pinky Swear Fou…
00:40:59 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Dr. Allyson Ocean Unfiltered: Science, Colons and Calling BS
Allyson with a Y. Ocean with two Ls. And zero chill when it comes to changing the face of cancer care. Dr. Allyson Ocean has been quietly—loudly—at the center of every major cancer breakthrough, nonp…
00:43:38 |
Tue 03 Jun 2025
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[BONUS] No One Told Me: COVID and Cancer
Sponsored by Invivyd, Inc.
Nobody wants to hear about COVID-19 anymore. Especially not cancer patients. But if you’ve got a suppressed immune system thanks to chemo, radiation, stem cell transplants…
00:04:48 |
Fri 30 May 2025
Constellations and Cancer: A Storytelling Rebellion with Lisa Shufro
EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Lisa Shufro is the storyteller’s storyteller. A musician turned innovation strategist, TEDMed curator, and unapologetic truth-teller, Lisa doesn’t just craft narratives—she engin…
00:40:11 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Dancing Through the Wreckage: Sally Wolf
What happens when you blend the soul of Mr. Rogers, the boldness of RuPaul, and just a pinch of Carrie Bradshaw? You get Sally Wolf.
She’s a Harvard and Stanford powerhouse who ditched corporate med…
00:39:59 |
Tue 20 May 2025
OCRA, Acronyms, and Audra: The Nonprofit Multiverse of Madness
Episode Description
Audra Moran is the President and CEO of OCRA—Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance—which means she spends her days doing things most of us wouldn’t survive five minutes doing: merging…
00:40:35 |
Tue 13 May 2025
CancerCare Turns 81. Christine Verini Has the Keys
Christine Verini is a pharmacist by training, a nonprofit CEO by title, and an unapologetic empath by design. She now leads CancerCare, one of the oldest, least-known, and most impactful organization…
00:44:19 |
Tue 06 May 2025
Jen Finkelstein: Wigs, Wegmans, and War Stories
Jennifer Finkelstein is not here for your pity, your pinkwashed slogans, or your performative awareness campaigns. She’s a 20-year young adult breast cancer survivor who turned trauma into a blueprin…
00:46:44 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
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