Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

Matthew Zachary

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Booking Overview

Out of Patients is a healthcare podcast built around candid patient and clinician experiences—and the policy and system incentives that shape outcomes. It’s a strong booking fit for PR professionals working on healthcare equity, patient advocacy, and healthcare system reform, with guests who can speak both lived experience and operational truth.

Metrics

Episodes: 499

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 2.7k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Matthew Zachary - Host of the independent healthcare podcast Out of Patients. A 30-year brain cancer survivor, he built the young adult cancer movement and channels patient rage into political power, featuring survi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Healthcare clinicians (e.g., physicians, burn surgeons, oncology trainees), patient advocates and survivors, healthcare technology and informatics leaders, and healthcare system insiders who can explain how incentives, workflow, and policy translate into real patient outcomes.
Required Achievements:  
Clinical leadership or direct patient care in underserved settings, Translational/research leadership (e.g., assistant professorships, labs), Initiatives in medical education or media that address misinformation, Experience implementing or scaling health tech infrastructure

Recent Guest Discussions

Dr. Benjamin Suarez Jimenez - Academic Gatekeeping And Unwritten Rules In Biomedical Research; Grant Writing Expectations And Access To Opportunity; Institutional Bureaucracy Delaying Careers; Translating A Grant Proposal Into A Successful Pilot Award For An NIH R01 Application; Mentoring/dissertation Roadblocks.

Dr. Sarah Matt - Burn Surgeon Experience; Pivot Into Health Technology And Scaling Care; Why Digital Health/ai Stalls In Real Clinical Environments; Rural Patient Care; Prior Authorization And Workflow Failures.

Dr. Yan Leyfman - Surviving Chernobyl; Training And Practice In Academic Medicine; Prior Authorization Delays And Fragmented Cancer Care; Medical Media And Narrative Control; Mentorship And Belonging.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Health Policy, Patient Advocacy, Health Equity, Medical Systems

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
:

Jace Beats Cancer

June 16, 2026

At 25, Jace Yawnick was building a career in health and wellness sales, chasing growth, status, and the usual young adult fantasy of getting somewhere fast. Then his body stopped cooperating. Fatigue turned into chemotherapy. The diagnosis was primary mediastinal B cell non Hodgkin lymphoma, and the rest of his life split into before and after.   Now in remission, he talks about cancer the way people actually live it, not the way nonprofits package it. He gets into survivorship, men...

Standard Deviation S2 E4: The Invisible Load

June 11, 2026

At 20 years old, newly arrived from Puerto Rico and trying to build a future in science, Benjamin Suarez Jimenez found himself sitting in front of two senior faculty members accused of plagiarism. He knew the material. He had done the work. His mistake came from failing to cite class notes during an exam because nobody had told him that was expected. In a matter of minutes, he watched what felt like his entire career flash before him.On this episode of Standard Deviation, host Oliver Bogler e...

Taco Thursday Meets Broken Healthcare: Dr. Sarah Matt

June 09, 2026

Dr. Sarah Matt trained as a burn surgeon, working in a field where patients arrive with catastrophic injuries and survival depends on speed, skill, and resources. She left the bedside after confronting a limit that medicine does not like to admit. One physician can only see so many people in a day. The system surrounding those patients decides the rest. She moved into health technology, held leadership roles in startups, and built global infrastructure at Oracle to scale care across populatio...

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