[BEST OF OOP] Katy Talento
In 2008, Katy Talento walked away from Capitol Hill and into a Catholic convent. Within a year, she walked out. Within another decade, she s...
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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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[BEST OF OOP] Ben Unger
In a wooded campground cabin in the early 2000s, 19 year old Ben Unger stood in the doorway and watched 20 naked men form a circle around a...
[BEST OF OOP] Jessica J. Federer
Jessica Federer built her career inside the rooms where science, money, and power collide. As the first female Chief Digital Officer at Baye...
[BEST OF OOP] Eugene Manley, Jr., PhD
Dr Eugene Manley grew up in Detroit in the 1980s cycling through emergency rooms 20 to 30 times a year with asthma and anaphylaxis while hos...
[BEST OF OOP] Jenny Opalinski
Jenny Opalinski has spent more than a decade inside hospitals where people lose the ability to speak, breathe, swallow, and sometimes surviv...
Fitz Happens: The Marvelous Fitz Koehler
Fitz Koehler is a fitness expert, race announcer, author, and breast cancer survivor whose career spans decades of helping people move, trai...
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...
[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...