These Are The People Who Believed In My Book Before It Existed
A former Medicaid Chief Medical Officer. The Publisher of Scientific American. A healthcare whistleblower who burned his career to tell the truth. The Deputy Director of Duke's Brain Tumor Center. The former CEO of the American Cancer Society. The CEO of the Prevent Cancer Foundation. A former Division Director at the CDC.
They read this manuscript and put their names on it. Not because I asked nicely. Because they recognized what patients have been living for decades.
Jeremy Abbate compared We The Patients to Common Sense and called me the Thomas Paine of the Patient Revolution. I am still processing that sentence. Wendell Potter called it a clarion call to rig the system for patients instead of corporations. Lisa Fitzpatrick said it belongs to every person fatigued, frustrated, and forsaken by the maze. Karen Knudsen said medical progress means nothing without patient accountability.
These are not blurbs. These are receipts from people who spent their careers inside the machine and chose to stand with us anyway.
I wrote this book for everyone who got a denial letter while sitting in a hospital bed. For everyone who rationed medication because the math did not work. For everyone who buried someone the system failed.
We The Patients drops in May from Wiley. Pre order now. Every copy is a vote for what comes next.
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“A clarion call for how we can all work together to rig the system in order to better serve the needs of patients, not corporate interests.”
— Wendell Potter, Healthcare Whistleblower, Publisher and Executive Editor of HEALTH CARE un-Covered
"Whereas the American Revolution had Thomas Paine and Common Sense, the new Patient Revolution has Matthew Zachary. We the Patients is essential reading for anyone wronged by American Healthcare, exposing how the system works against patients and showing how real power can be reclaimed."
— Jeremy Abbate, Publisher, Scientific American
“Matthew has bent Every Which Way (and Loose) to advocate for We the Patients since he was first diagnosed with brain cancer as a 21-year-old. Now, three decades later, he’s making the case for We The Patients, armed with data, raw stories, and a burning platform.”
— Jane Sarasohn-Kahn, Health Economist and founder/blogger at Health Populi
“We The Patients shows why medical progress means nothing without patient accountability. Required reading for anyone shaping cancer care.”
— Karen E. Knudsen, MBA PhD, CEO, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, Former CEO, American Cancer Society
"We The Patients gives voice to the people who live inside the data. Matthew shows how stories and science together can make healthcare more honest and more human."
— Jim Weiss, Founder & Chairman, Real Chemistry
“We The Patients restores humanity to healthcare. Matthew blends critique with hope and reminds us what’s at stake when we stop listening to patients.”
– Henry S Friedman, MD, Deputy Director of the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke
“We The Patients belongs to every person fatigued, frustrated, and forsaken by the maze that passes for our healthcare system.”
— Lisa Fitzpatrick, MD, MPH, MPA, Former Medicaid Chief Medical Officer
“We The Patients reframes patients not as endpoints or data sources, but as essential partners in progress. This book belongs in the hands of anyone designing the future of care.”
— Jessica Federer, Former Chief Digital Officer, Bayer AG
"Matthew lays the groundwork for the coming healthcare revolution, led by cancer survivors and the people who love and care for them, to change the system that failed them."
— Lisa C. Richardson, MD, MPH, Former Division Director, Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
“We The Patients brilliantly explains how American healthcare got here while giving hope to millions who have felt unseen navigating it. I could not put this book down."
— Jody Hoyos, CEO, Prevent Cancer Foundation
"We The Patients explains why patients feel angry and lost and shows they are not failing the system. The system is failing them."
— Barb Collura, Former CEO, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association
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Welcome to 2026: The Year of the Patient where the sick shall inherit the ballot.
Are you new here? My condolences and my thanks. Follow along and stay loud with the rest of us. More voices means more pressure on a system that counts on silence.
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