BOOK LAUNCH! I was 21 when I found out I had brain cancer because a radiologist never returned a call. Thirty years later, I wrote this about why every patient needs a second opinion. www.matthewzachary.com/blog/its-tim...

30 Years Cancer Free Today! open.substack.com/pub/thematth...

[WHAT IF?] @mcuban.bsky.social Ran for President on Healthcare? open.substack.com/pub/thematth...

Happy New Year!

My 2025 Gratitude Post www.linkedin.com/pulse/2025-g...

Apparently, I’m the #3 cancer influencer on @linkedin.com (My tumor would be proud). Survived brain cancer at 21 and turned nonviolent revenge into a career. Patients are done waiting for permission. Thanks Favikon Awards!. Updating my bio to Global Top 3 Troublemaker. #HappyThanksgiving

@mcuban.bsky.social accidentally became the Robin Hood of healthcare. He didn’t ask for it. We noticed anyway. Read The Patron Saint of Patients. emz.ee/3J0PtV3

Grateful to @matthewzachary.bsky.social for his deeply probing questions + shared dark humor during our live, unscripted conversation in his famous "Out of Patients" health podcast ~ at: www.outofpatients.com/the-genes-of... #Scicomm #Genetics #Memoir #Raredisease #Newbornscreening #healthcarereform

🧬The Genes of Wrath ~ 🎧podcast episode's up! On "Out of Patients" ~ about disconnects between medical knowledge + human connection, rare disease parenting, trauma + survival while flipping the script. www.outofpatients.com/the-genes-of... #raredisease #memoir #PKU #books @matthewzachary.bsky.social

Very excited to see the first episode of a new 🎙️ #podcast project on @matthewzachary.bsky.social 's Out of Patients Network - called Standard Deviation out today. We tell the stories of scientists facing adversity. Thanks MZ for the opportunity! Take a listen www.outofpatients.com/introducing-...

Man Up to Cancer 2025 Gathering of Wolves: The Brotherhood I Never Expected to Find emz.ee/42L9w05

US Healthcare is a horror show. Premiums up 18 percent. Subsidies vanish. Families forced to earn less just to stay insured. @danweissmann.bsky.social Arm and a Leg lays it out like no one else. thematthewzachary.substack.com/p/arms-and-l... #HealthCare #ACA #PatientRights #ArmAndALeg

This scary calculator is SUPER relevant to anybody looking at Obamacare for 2026 ... and plays a big role in @armandalegshow.bsky.social's brand-new episode. It's personal — and full of info that you, or someone you care about, probably need too. armandalegshow.com/episode/insu...

For the last six months, my colleagues and I have been compiling our best "playbook" for dealing with the awful price of meds — with suggestions from dozens of listeners and readers. Now, we've published the results — five newsletter posts, two podcast episodes, and more: armandalegshow.com/drugs/

Some real holy-crap numbers here. We spend 80% more than the avg for Western Europe/Japan/Australia … and see our doctors HALF as often.

You know what it is. #StupidCancer #TGIF

I’m emceeing the ABTA BT5K in NYC this fall. From 21-year-old brain cancer patient to 30-year survivor, this one hits home. Read the story on Substack: emz.ee/3VxleaF #BrainTumorAwareness #ABTA #BT5K #CancerSurvivor

RFK Jr. is gutting the CDC like a frat house prank gone national. Public health is not supposed to be a circus. Patients will pay with their lives while politics plays pretend. Read my full take: emz.ee/4p3niov #PublicHealth

17 years ago at @StupidCancer I built the first OMG! Cancer Summit. Today, CancerCon 2025 in DC showed me what it has become: a home for survivors, caregivers, and advocates who refuse to be ignored. Loud. Proud. Not going away. Read my recap: emz.ee/41uooj2 #CancerCon

Labor Day honors all work. Nurses on double shifts. Caregivers with two jobs. Advocates pounding on locked doors. Patients like me, fighting disease while fighting the system. America celebrates labor. America must also protect it. #LaborDay emz.ee/3Vu6NUI

The government just shrugged off pediatric brain cancer. Thirty years a survivor, I watch this move reopen every scar. Enough is enough. Read my full takedown, @danweissmann.bsky.social ssmann—let’s light a match under real change. (Maybe a pod guest swap soon?) emz.ee/41YbKsE

🚨SEASON 8 FINALE 🚨15-year-old Lexi Silver lost both parents before she turned 11. She writes about grief with zero filter and calls out every lie adults tell kids like her. We talked about loss, trolls, poetry, anger, and what real resilience looks like in 2025. emz.ee/4oc5oPK

“If approved, a new rule could end the entrenched pay advantages for specialists like surgeons over other doctors.” (Gift link) Potentially huge (and complicated). www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/u...

A credit counselor told me she *routinely* referred clients to the CFPB when creditors acted unfairly. And it worked. Now... "CFPB employees say they essentially spend the workday sitting on their hands, forbidden from doing any work by directive from the White House." apnews.com/article/cfpb...

Best. Father's Day. Ever.

#HappyFathersDay #MayorLou

Are you at ASCO and need a quick, very entertaining break? Head on over to Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary, and listen to No One Told Me?! COVID and Cancer! @ascocancer.bsky.social @matthewzachary.bsky.social www.outofpatients.com/bonus-no-one...

19 years ago today, I launched The Stupid Cancer Show and accidentally changed healthcare media forever. If Out of Patients ever made you feel seen, go drop a 5-star review. Let’s make some noise.

Lisa Shufro coached scientists to not suck on stage. We talk TEDMed, Richard Simmons, cancer storytelling, AI, and why your pitch deck still sucks. Listen now. outofpatients.com

🚨New episode: Sally Wolf survived Stage 4 breast cancer, danced through it (literally), and now schools us on what living really means. Smart, raw, hilarious. Don’t miss this. 🎧 outofpatients.com

New #OutOfPatients: Matthew Zachary sits down with OCRA CEO Audra Moran to talk nonprofit leadership, ovarian cancer, AI, fallopian tubes, and Terminator 2. Yes, really. Listen now: outofpatients.com

🚨 New episode: Christine Verini, CEO of CancerCare, joins me to talk burnout, patient survival, and why empathy isn't a buzzword. 81 years of real help—finally getting loud. Listen now → outofpatients.com

🚨 New episode: Jennifer Finkelstein joins Out of Patients to talk cancer, cold caps, and calling BS on pink ribbons. Real talk. No fluff. Total legend. Listen now. outofpatients.com #BreastCancer #YoungSurvivor #CancerAdvocate #GenX #OutOfPatients #PatientAdvocacy #HealthcareReform

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm... @matthewzachary.bsky.social dual rage mode activated

🎉 🥳 🤯 📚 I GOT A BOOK DEAL! 📚 🤯 🥳 🎉 I sold my book to Wiley. It's real. It's happening. I'm going to be a published author, a moment thirty years in the making. ANNOUNCEMENT ➡️ emz.ee/bookdeal2025

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 What happens when a sword-wielding fitness icon gets cancer twice? Ilaria Montagnani joins me to talk survival, strength, and calling out BS. Listen now! #CancerSurvivor #Fitness #OutOfPatients

Misdiagnosed. Dismissed. Furious—and rightfully so. Helene Epstein turned pain into purpose. Listen to her torch the system on Out of Patients. You need this one. #PatientSafety #Misdiagnosis #Healthcare

29 years post brain cancer. Clean MRI. Still here. Still fighting. Still flipping tables for every patient failed by the system. Let’s go. #CancerSurvivor #Scanxiety #PatientAdvocate #29YearsLater

Nothing like an on-the-nose “advocacy decor” piece for the workspace. #patientadvocate #patientadvocacy #sisyphus

Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week exists because survivors demanded to be seen. From ignored to organized, the AYA movement is stronger than ever—and we’re not done yet. #AYACancer #AYAaware #AYACSM #YoungAdultCancer #AYACancerAwareness

This week’s Out of Patients episode features Jonathan & Jennifer Wall, who turned grief into purpose after losing their son Zach. #OutOfPatients #BeLikeZach #PediatricCancer #PatientAdvocacy

CHINA HITS U.S. WITH 34% RETALIATORY TARIFF China also added 11 additional U.S. companies to its "unreliable entities" list, virtually banning them from doing business in China or with Chinese companies, and expanded export controls on seven types of rare earth related items. Prices to skyrocket.

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

FML @meidastouch.com @aaronparnas.bsky.social @davidpakman.bsky.social apple.news/AHKIfHYBIRa6...

Just dropped a raw, funny, emotional episode with my day-one college bestie Sarah Armstrong. Cancer, Broadway, Denny’s in Vestal, and 30 years of real friendship. Spotify ➡️ emz.ee/41Vn0GL #OutOfPatients #CancerSurvivor #BroadwayKids

Another article about coverage denials with no mention of the government regulations that encourage insurers to deny coverage. kffhealthnews.org/ne... #PriorAuthorization @kffhealthnews @MatthewZachary

MeidasTouch Network keeps growing! We are excited to launch Meidas Health, led by Dr. @vinguptamd.bsky.social, to keep you updated on health risks caused by the Trump regime. Our first episode is available now on the MeidasTouch Podcast.

Hey @meidastouch.com — You're missing a huge opportunity to engage the patient advocacy community with this brilliant extension of your badassery. I can help www.meidasplus.com/p/meidastouc...

Vanessa Rissetto built a health startup. Then she got cancer. We talk survivorship, nutrition, burnout, and the chaos of being the patient. New #OutOfPatients episode is live. #HealthcareInnovation #CancerSurvivor #NutritionMatters #FoundersJourney SPOTIFY ➡️ emz.ee/41UOZVK

Many hundreds (perhaps up to 1000) of additional NIH grants appear to be have been terminated on Friday. I have updated the data from the HHS TAGGS site (and converted it from a pdf to an Excel file) on the dashboard but many hundreds are still missing. jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...