Out of Patients
with Matthew Zachary
Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
Doctors Aren’t Unable to Treat Their Patients. They’re Being Blocked.
Doctors know how to treat their patients. Increasingly, they’re being blocked from doing it. After decades in patient advocacy, I’m realizing that patients and physicians may be fighting different sides of the same healthcare battle.
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.