Out of Patients
with Matthew Zachary
Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
Tamika Felder Built Cervivor. Then She Built a Family.
At 25, cervical cancer forced Tamika Felder into a hysterectomy without fertility preservation. Two decades later, another survivor donated embryos that helped her become a mother. A story about systemic gaps, advocacy, and the family she built anyway.
[YouTube] I Read From My Book For The First Time. I Was Not Ready.
Matthew Zachary reads from We the Patients for the first time at the Cervivor Summit. Surrounded by cervical cancer survivors, he breaks down while honoring families crushed by medical debt and systemic failure. A defining moment ahead of the book’s May 2026 release.
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Join the recurring Out of Patients dispatch from Matthew Zachary covering the latest American healthcare shenanigans. Essays, podcast episodes, media appearances, book updates, and live events delivered with a sardonic Gen X perspective from a patient who simply refuses to shut up.
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