Episodes

March 11, 2026

Standard Deviation S2 EP1: Gatekeepers of the Ivory Tower

Science likes to call itself a meritocracy. Angela Anderson and Brandi Mattson know better. Both served as editors at elite journals (Cell and Neuron), where a single decision could determine who gets tenure, funding, or obsc...
March 9, 2026

Neuro Spicy on the Front Line: Dr Pamela Buchanan

Today’s episode of Out of Patients welcomes Dr Pamela Buchanan, an emergency room physician with over 20 years inside American medicine who refuses to sugarcoat what the job demands and what it destroys. She worked straight t...
March 4, 2026

[BONUS] Eczema, Exit, Repeat: Dr. Barbra Paldus

Dr. Barbara Paldus is the Founder and CEO of CODEX Labs , the sponsor of this episode. She grew up around Nobel Prize winners, built biotech manufacturing equipment for vaccines and cancer therapeutics, and then sold her comp...
March 2, 2026

STEMM Cells and Broken Bones

Dr Eugene Manley grew up in Detroit in the 1980s cycling through emergency rooms 20 to 30 times a year with asthma and anaphylaxis while hospital staff talked past his family and buried them in paperwork they could not decode...
Feb. 23, 2026

Callus on Your Soul: Jenny Opalinski

Jenny Opalinski has spent more than a decade inside hospitals where people lose the ability to speak, breathe, swallow, and sometimes survive. A medical speech language pathologist by training, she worked in ICU, neuro rehab,...
Feb. 16, 2026

Reclaiming the Vowels: Sarah Gromko

Sarah Gromko and Matthew Zachary go back to SUNY Binghamton in the early 1990s, when they were barely 19 and living inside rehearsal rooms. She starred in campus musical theater productions. He served as pianist and music dir...
Feb. 9, 2026

Artificially Intelligent and Naturally Irreverent

Matt Hampton and Dr Tom Ingegno came into my world the way the best guests always do. They found me first. They pulled me onto their Irreverent Health Podcast, a show that blends medicine, curiosity, and unapologetic nonsense...
Feb. 2, 2026

Good Morning, Cancer

Bill Thach has had 9 lines of treatment, over 1,000 doses of chemo, and more scans than an airport. He runs ultramarathons for fun. He jokes about being his own Porta Potty. He became a father, then got cancer while his daugh...
Jan. 26, 2026

Lead (Poisoning), Laugh, Love with Shannon Burkett

Shannon Burkett has lived about six lives. Broadway actor. SNL alum. Nurse. Filmmaker. Advocate. Cancer survivor. And the kind of person who makes you question what you’ve done with your day. She wrote and produced My Vagina ...
Jan. 19, 2026

[WALK IT OFF EP3] CHRONIC ZEN

Michael Kramer was 19 when cancer ambushed his life. He went from surfing Florida beaches to chemo, radiation, and a bone marrow transplant that left him alive but carrying a chronic disease. He had necrosis in his knees and ...
Jan. 12, 2026

[WALK IT OFF EP1] ROCKS NEED ROCKS

Daniel Garza had momentum. Acting roles, directing gigs, national tours lined up. Then anal cancer stopped everything. Radiation wrecked his body, stripped him of control, and left him in diapers, staring down despair. His pa...
Jan. 5, 2026

[WALK IT OFF EP1] MAN UP

Trevor Maxwell lived the archetype of masculinity in rural Maine. Big, strong, splitting wood, raising kids, and carrying the load. Then cancer ripped that script apart. In 2018 he was bedridden, emasculated, ashamed, and con...
Dec. 29, 2025

Koby & Hannah's 2025 Holiday Podcast Spectacular

The most anticipated annual tradition on Out of Patients returns with the 2025 Holiday Podcast Spectacular starring Matthew's twins Koby and Hannah. Now 15 and a half and deep into sophomore year, the twins deliver another un...
Dec. 22, 2025

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: Jason Gilley

Jason Gilley walked into adulthood with a fastball, a college roster spot, and a head of curls that deserved its own agent. Cancer crashed that party and took him on a tour of chemo chairs, pediatric wards, metal taste, numb ...
Dec. 17, 2025

Plan B

Dr. Marissa Russo trained to become a cancer biologist. She spent four years studying one of the deadliest brain tumors in adults and built her entire research career around a simple, urgent goal: open her own lab and improve...
Dec. 15, 2025

Otherwise Healthy with Scott Capozza

Scott Capozza and I could have been cloned in a bad lab experiment. Both diagnosed with cancer in our early twenties. Both raised on dial-up and mixtapes. Both now boy-girl twin dads with speech-therapist wives and a lifelong...
Dec. 8, 2025

Doctor No More: MaryAnn Wilbur

Dr. MaryAnn Wilbur trained her whole life to care for patients, then left medicine behind when it became a machine that punished empathy and rewarded throughput. She didn’t burn out. She got out. A gynecologic oncologist, pub...
Dec. 3, 2025

Standard Deviation EP5: Damage Done

Episode 5 of Standard Deviation with Oliver Bogler on the Out of Patients podcast feed pulls you straight into the story of Dr Ethan Moitra, a psychologist who fights for LGBTQ mental health while the system throws every obst...
Dec. 1, 2025

The Good Cancer Club Sucks: Chelsea J. Smith

Chelsea J. Smith walks into a studio and suddenly I feel like a smurf. She’s six-foot-three of sharp humor, dancer’s poise, and radioactive charm. A working actor and thyroid cancer survivor, Chelsea is the kind of guest who ...
Nov. 24, 2025

The Nicest Bus in Cancer: Julia Stalder

When Julia Stalder heard the words ductal carcinoma in situ, she was told she had the “best kind of breast cancer.” Which is like saying you got hit by the nicest bus. Julia’s a lawyer turned mediator who now runs DCIS Unders...
Nov. 19, 2025

Standard Deviation EP4: The Gamble

Dr. Rachel Gatlin entered neuroscience with curiosity and optimism. Then came chaos. She started her PhD at the University of Utah in March 2020—right as the world shut down. Her lab barely existed. Her advisor was on leave. ...
Nov. 17, 2025

Reenactments, Rants, and Really F*cked Up Insurance

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Before she was raising millions to preserve fertility for cancer patients, Tracy Weiss was filming reenactments in her apartment for the Maury Povich Show using her grandmother’s china. Her origin story in...
Nov. 10, 2025

Oy Vey! It's Libby Amber Shayo

EPISODE DESCRIPTION: Libby Amber Shayo didn’t just survive the pandemic—she branded it. Armed with a bun, a New York accent, and enough generational trauma to sell out a two-drink-minimum crowd, she turned her Jewish mom impr...
Nov. 5, 2025

Standard Deviation EP3: The Weight

When the system kills a $2.4 million study on Black maternal health with one Friday afternoon email, the message is loud and clear: stop asking questions that make power uncomfortable. Dr. Jaime Slaughter-Acey, an epidemiolog...