SurgeON: Dr. Jeremy Heffner
Jeremy Heffner, MD, FACS is a board-certified trauma surgeon, former Chair of Surgery at Lima Memorial Health System, and cofounder of Surge...
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Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
The definitive no-BS podcast about how to make healthcare suck less. Join award-winning host Matthew Zachary every Tuesday and Thursday where he and his guests put a humorous spin on breakin...
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[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP8: The Inequity of Cure: Who Gets to Matter
In 1971 , the National Cancer Act transformed cancer into a national research priority. More than 50 years later, the next frontier is no lo...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP7: The Inequity of Cure: Who Gets to Matter
In 1987 , Mary P. Lovato , a member of Kewa Pueblo in New Mexico, was diagnosed with acute leukemia. To receive a bone marrow transplant, sh...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP6: Lights, Camera… Colonoscopy: Cancer Mavericks Go to Hollywood
In 2000 , Katie Couric underwent a live colonoscopy on national television following the death of her husband, Jay Monahan , from colorectal...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP5: The Young Adult Cancer Revolution: When the Next Generation Got Loud
In 2006 , a landmark report titled Closing the Gap: Research and Care Imperatives for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer confirmed wha...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP4: You’re Not ‘Cured’ — You’re Just Not Dead
In 2006 , the Institute of Medicine published From Cancer Patient to Cancer Survivor: Lost in Transition , concluding that millions of Ameri...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP3: The Navigator and the Negotiator
In 1967 , breast surgeon Dr. Harold P. Freeman arrived at Harlem Hospital expecting to treat cancer. Instead, he confronted a healthcare sys...
[BONUS] Subject Matter: Four Teenagers Built a Play From Scratch
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...
Standard Deviation S2 E6: Margins of Error (Series Finale)
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 reveal...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP2: You’re Cured, Good Luck
In 1986 , 23 survivors, physicians, nurses, attorneys, and community organizers gathered in Albuquerque, New Mexico , for a weekend that wou...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks EP1: The Big C Wasn’t Always on TV
In 1971 , President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act , transforming cancer research with an unprecedented federal investment and...
[HIATUS] The Cancer Mavericks Goes to Hollywood (With My Mom)
Long before cancer survivors organized into a movement, Hollywood had already shaped how Americans understood the disease. Films rarely used...
Your Benefits May Vary: Rebecca Bloom
Rebecca Bloom is a former employee benefits and executive compensation attorney who spent more than 25 years helping women navigate cancer,...
Mission, Margin, and the Women Left Waiting: Vasanta Pundarika
Vasanta Pundarika built her career inside healthcare investment banking before launching Lotuspring, an advisory firm focused on women’s hea...
You Shouldn’t Need AI to Survive Cancer: Brad Power
Brad Power spent years advising major corporations on systems design, process engineering, and decision making before lymphoma shoved him in...
Standard Deviation S2 E5: Pitch Imperfect
By the time the paper hit version 71, Dr. Nirosha Murugan had already done the hard part. The data were real. The experiment had worked. A t...
The Doctor Will Leave You Now: Jessica Peatross
Dr. Jess Peatross trained in conventional medicine and worked as a hospitalist before she started questioning why so many chronically ill pa...
The Patient Wears Prada: Farla Efros
Farla Efros is a senior retail executive and former CEO who built and sold companies before facing her own breast cancer diagnosis. She brin...
Coding the Invisible: Emily Mendenhall
In 2020, Emily Mendenhall drove from Washington, DC to Okoboji, Iowa, a town of 800 that swells to 200,000 every summer, and walked into a p...
Jace Beats Cancer
At 25, Jace Yawnick was building a career in health and wellness sales, chasing growth, status, and the usual young adult fantasy of getting...