Sydney Towle didn’t fail to look sick enough. We failed to understand what living with cancer can actually look like. Her story exposes a culture that demands patients perform suffering before offering compassion, and what that says about all of us.

Long COVID did not create a crisis. It exposed one. Patients without clear diagnoses lose access to care, coverage, and credibility. When medicine cannot measure your illness, the system moves on. Here is what that looks like and who pays the price

Marc Elia chairs a biotech company and lives with Long COVID. On Out of Patients, he breaks down the invisible immunocompromised population, the limits of regulatory thinking, and why empathy without action leaves patients stranded.