Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary OffScrip Health

What do you get when you cross a professional wrestler, small business coffee company executive, nonprofit consultant, and rare cancer? Well, that would be the uniquely talented and inspiring unicorn that is Sean Wachter, who joined Matthew live in-studio for one hell of a conversation about how they're both somehow still alive. Well, that and much more, including a total 80s WWF throwback session to WrestleMania, a debate over Randy "Macho Man" Savage vs "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, and how Galaxy Quest got it right with "Never give up. Never surrender." Plus a healthy dose of nonprofit therapy and survivor guilt.

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In the Spring of 2023, Matthew had the pleasure of speaking at an event hosted by Quest Analytics, a fabulous company whose mission has been to improve provider network management and help people across America receive the information and care they deserve. In today's episode, Quests's CEO, Steve Levin, joins Matthew to talk about what "access" really means and how the concept of "urban pre-planning" is getting reinvented at all cultural and socioeconomic levels to ensure those hypertargeted communities are provided with the tailored healthcare infrastructure they deserve.

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Dr. Owen Muir is an Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families-trained psychiatrist and official Mentalizing Treatment Supervisor. He is the coauthor of Adolescent Suicide and Self Injury: Mentalizing Theory and Treatment, a dual board-certified physician, with ABPN certification in general and child and adolescent psychiatry and a practicing physician in New York. But beyond the LinkedIn profile, he's a badass "inside baseball" advocate railing against the insurance industry for it's nonsensical malfeasance in the way it treats patients. His infamous newsletter, the "Frontier Psyciatrist's Substack" is appointment reading by anyone wishing to take an active role in fixing America's broken healthcare system.

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Melissa Berry, aka The Cancer Fashionista, is a Stage 1 Triple Negative Breast Cancer. She is now the founder of Cancer Fashionista (a fashion, beauty, and lifestyle platform for the breast cancer community), the host of the "Dear Cancer, I'm Beautiful" podcast, and the board chair for the Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation. Today, she's a trusted leader, outspoken advocate, and notable influencer recognized for her outstanding support of women.

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In today's episode, Matthew welcomes one of his nearest and dearest friends, Geralyn Lucas, whom he met in the earliest days of the nascent adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer movement circa 2004. Geralyn, a storied American journalist and television producer, had only recently survived breast cancer and released the infamously notorious book, "Why I Wore Lipstick To My Mastectomy," which was adapted shortly after into a Lifetime television show soon after. As one of the first published authors who unapologetically interjected humor and snark into her story, Geralyn solidified herself as an authentic origin story influencer of AYA culture and paved the way for others to usher un a new era of patient empowerment and cancer survivorship.

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In 2021, OffScrip Health produced The Cancer Mavericks: A History of Survivorship, an award-winning 8-part limited documentary series about the people and not the disease.




So, if you're a narrative history podcast junkie, listen to Episode One of The Cancer Mavericks right here on the Out of Patients feed today. Learn how the Black Panthers became breast cancer advocates and how a $250,000 full-page ad in the NY Times shamed President Nixon into giving a damn about cancer. And how 50 years of social justice movements have brought us into today's conversations about healthcare, income inequality, and race relations.




Apple Podcasts

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cancer-mavericks-a-history-of-survivorship/id1566467305




Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/1Viodbe0rNxET08IyCiDmq




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