Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

Matthew Zachary

Booking Overview

An interview-led healthcare and cancer podcast focused on patient experience, healthcare systems, advocacy, and institutional failures, featuring survivors, clinicians, researchers, founders, and healthcare insiders. PR agencies could credibly pitch healthcare policy experts, oncology professionals, patient advocates, researchers, and founders with relevant lived or professional experience; booking difficulty is medium, as substantive expertise and a strong perspective matter more than celebrity status.

Metrics

Episodes: 512

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.9/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.1k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

podcasts@matthewzachary.com

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Host

Matthew Zachary - A 30-year brain cancer survivor who built the young adult cancer movement and has spent nearly two decades exposing failures and inequities in American healthcare.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Healthcare professionals, researchers, patient advocates, survivors, healthcare executives, founders, and policy or benefits experts with substantial subject-matter expertise, professional experience, or relevant lived experience.

Required Achievements:

Founded a healthcare, advocacy, or research organization, Published a book or peer-reviewed research, Held senior roles in healthcare, law, finance, or medicine, Developed expertise through significant patient or caregiver experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Rebecca Bloom - Cancer Care, Health Insurance, Employee Benefits, Workplace Protections, Disability Coverage, Caregiving, And Patient Advocacy.

Vasanta Pundarika - Women’s Health, Behavioral Health, Healthcare Investment, Private Equity, Caregiving Burdens, Patient Trust, And Healthcare Business Models.

Brad Power - Cancer Navigation, Patient Literacy, Insurance Barriers, Personalized Medicine, Car-t Therapy, Artificial Intelligence, And Healthcare Decision-making.

Nirosha Murugan - Tissue Regeneration, Bioelectricity, Biomedical Research, Academic Publishing, Scientific Credibility, And Access To Research Mentorship.

Jessica Peatross - Physician Burnout, Chronic Illness, Healthcare Incentives, Medical Trust, Functional Medicine, Cannabis Therapy, And Prevention-focused Care.

Recent Topics

Cancer, Healthcare, Patient Advocacy, Health Policy, Caregiving

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary

[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP3: The Navigator and the Negotiator

August 18, 2026

In 1967, breast surgeon Dr. Harold P. Freeman arrived at Harlem Hospital expecting to treat cancer. Instead, he confronted a healthcare system where poverty, racism, lack of insurance, and institutional barriers often determined who lived long enough to receive treatment. Patients frequently arrived with advanced disease, not because medicine lacked answers, but because access to care had failed them.This episode explores how cancer survivorship expanded beyond medical breakthroughs to includ...

[BONUS] Subject Matter: Four Teenagers Built a Play From Scratch

August 16, 2026

Welcome to a very, very, very special bonus episode of Out of Patients, and one unlike anything published on this feed before. For nearly 20 years, Matthew Zachary has handed these microphones to patients, caregivers, doctors, advocates, troublemakers, and people with something worth saying. This time, he handed them to his daughter. Hannah Greenzweig grew up around this show, and now she has commandeered the studio with 3 of her wonderfully creative high school friends to talk about somethin...

Standard Deviation S2 E6: Margins of Error (Series Finale)

August 13, 2026

A man is struck by a car on the streets of Los Angeles. In the emergency department, a CT scan ordered to look for traumatic injuries reveals something nobody expected: a mass in his colon. Days later, sitting across from Dr. Belinda Waltman, he calls the accident “a blessing in disguise.” Then he changes the subject. He is less worried about cancer than about whether he can afford to miss another day of work. In this season finale of Standard Deviation, host Dr. Oliver Bogler explores ...

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