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.

A blinking answering machine. That's how I found out I had brain cancer. I was 21. Thirty years later, I wrote a book about it. "We the Patients" isn't a memoir—it's a manual. The system isn't broken. It was built this way. Don't try to fix it. Rig it in your favor. This book shows you how.