Matthew Zachary

🚨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

An Attack on the Medical Establishment Buried in an 1,800-Page Regulation

“If approved, a new rule could end the entrenched pay advantages for specialists like surgeons over other doctors.”
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Potentially huge (and complicated).
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Employees at the nation's consumer financial watchdog say it's become toothless under Trump Once a powerful watchdog for financial wrongdoing, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has seen its enforcement efforts grind to a halt under the Trump administration.

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."
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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
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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.
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🚨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.
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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.

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🚨 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

U.S. citizen children, including 4-year-old with cancer, taken to Honduras on mother's deportation flight, legal advocates say Two siblings, ages 4 and 7, were flown out of the U.S. on their mother’s deportation flight before attorneys could reach them, according to the National Immigration Project.

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@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.

RFK Jr says 20% of Doge’s health agency job cuts were mistakes — Guardian US Health secretary says roles will need to be reinstated amid Trump administration’s push to slash federal workforce

FML @meidastouch.com @aaronparnas.bsky.social @davidpakman.bsky.social

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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.

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#OutOfPatients #CancerSurvivor #BroadwayKids

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes - KFF Health News The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson prompted both grief and public outrage about the ways insurers deny treatment. Republicans and Democrats agree prior authorization needs fixing, but patients are growing impatient.

Another article about coverage denials with no mention of the government regulations that encourage insurers to deny coverage.

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Introducing Meidas Health with Dr. Vin Gupta, Episode 1 Podcast Episode · The MeidasTouch Podcast · 03/30/2025 · 22m

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.

Please do not miss out on the opportunity to engage the patient advocacy community. I've been in the trenches for 20 years and can help create a strategy and bridge opportunities.

MeidasTouch Network Launches Meidas Health with Dr. Vin Gupta to Expose Health Risks of Trump’s Agenda LOS ANGELES, CA — MeidasTouch Network, the leading pro-democracy media platform, is proud to announce the launch of its newest show: Meidas Health, a groundbreaking series hosted by renowned physician...

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

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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

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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.

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