From Brain Cancer to Advocate Leading "We The Patients"

What happens when a piano prodigy gets diagnosed with brain cancer at 21 - and never shuts up about it?

Matthew Zachary, founder of Stupid Cancer and author of the new book "We the Patients" , joins Nurse Rosa to talk about his extraordinary journey from Staten Island music prodigy to one of America's most fearless healthcare advocates. We cover his diagnosis, 30 years of fighting for patients, and his bold new proposal: organizing America's sick and angry into a bipartisan voter bloc to take on the health insurance industry.

Links & Resources

📖 We the Patients by Matthew Zachary — bookstores nationwide, bookshop.org, Books-A-Million

🗳️ Take the American Patient Healthcare Poll → https://www.wethepatients.org/

(free, 5 min, anonymous)

🎬 Suck It Up Buttercup documentary (featuring Matthew Zachary, Mark Cuban, Wendell Potter)

🔍 Find Matthew: Google "Matthew Zachary" — or LinkedIn

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Timestamps

0:28 – "I was drafted into healthcare" — cancer diagnosis at 21