Out of Patients EP433: STEMM Cells and Broken Bones

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Out of Patients EP433: STEMM Cells and Broken Bones

I wanted Eugene Manley on Out of Patients because he carries receipts instead of slogans. He grew up in Detroit in the 1980s cycling through ERs 20 to 30 times a year with asthma and anaphylaxis while adults spoke over his family and buried them in paperwork designed to confuse. He answered that harm by becoming a mechanical engineer a biomedical engineer and a molecular biologist. Three degrees forged by lived pressure not prestige.

His story belongs here because my audience knows the cost of being ignored by people with clipboards. Patients know it. Caregivers know it. Insiders know it. Eugene walked through Mount Sinai Queens after foot surgery and watched staff lie in his chart attempt an illegal discharge and nearly send him home on the wrong blood thinner. He stayed alive because he knew how to read what they wrote about him.

We also laughed. He told the story of blowing out his ACL while training for a jiu jitsu black belt and missing the exam because the knee gave out mid throw. He admitted he misses throwing people. I respect that honesty.

I survived brain cancer at 21. I recognize the people who turn rage into structure. Eugene builds pipelines for kids who never get invited into science. He teaches patients how to fight back with facts. I learned from him. You will too.

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Matthew Zachary

Matthew Zachary has spent three decades fighting to make the American healthcare system less cruel, organizing millions through advocacy and media. A former concert pianist whose life was turned upside down by brain cancer at just 21, he founded Stupid Cancer, the largest nonprofit for young adults with cancer. He also launched The Stupid Cancer Show, widely regarded as the first healthcare podcast, which later evolved into the award-winning Out of Patients. He produced Cancer Mavericks, a documentary series about the rebel patients who changed modern oncology. He is CEO and Co-Founder of We The Patients, a national movement organizing patients into collective civic power, and the author of We the Patients: Understanding, Navigating, and Surviving America’s Healthcare Nightmare (Wiley, May 2026) with Jen Singer.

https://www.matthewzachary.com
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