Out of Patients
with Matthew Zachary
Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
They Gave Every Medical Student My Book. Then We Talked About the Storm They’re Inheriting.
At the 2026 Robert A. Winn Clinical Investigator Symposium, hundreds of medical students received We the Patients and were challenged to see healthcare from the patient side of the bed rail, including the burden, bureaucracy, and hidden labor that medical training too often ignores.
Out of Patients EP432: Callus on Your Soul: Jenny Opalinski
Jenny Opalinski worked ICU floors where 10 to 15 traumatic events can hit in a single shift. In EP432 of Out of Patients she confronts clinician burnout, moral injury, and the cost of empathy in healthcare. A raw conversation about survival inside a system that grinds people down.
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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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