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"A fiery yet hopeful portrait of a broken system." - Publisher's Weekly

Take control of your healthcare and understand the rights that protect you.

In America, it's hard enough to stay healthy, but it's doubly brutal when your care and your outcome hinge on one question: "What insurance do you have?"

Thirty years after surviving a rare brain tumor and earning, what People magazine coined, "the people's voice in healthcare," Stupid Cancer founder Matthew Zachary learned how to bypass America's convoluted healthcare system: Don't fix the system. Rig it in your favor. We the Patients: Understanding, Surviving, and Navigating America's Healthcare Nightmare shows you how to make the most of a convoluted system that's built to confuse and exhaust the very people it claims to serve. This patient proclamation shows you how to stay truly alive even in the face of illness, make meaning from chaos, and channel anger into advocacy. It covers:

  • Zachary's crash course in the American healthcare system after a life-threatening diagnosis at 21 and his mission to make it "suck less" for the next patient
  • The rise of patient advocacy and the growing movement to reclaim power from a system built to serve itself
  • The coming Fifth Healthcare Revolution, driven by a newly organized electorate, and what it means for every American

We the Patients is an unfiltered look at what happens when the healthcare system fails real people. It's a blueprint for fighting back, and a must-read for anyone navigating illness, caregiving, or just trying to stay human in a system that makes that harder and harder for us all.

"A fiery yet hopeful portrait of a broken system." - Publisher's Weekly

Take control of your healthcare and understand the rights that protect you.

In America, it's hard enough to stay healthy, but it's doubly brutal when your care and your outcome hinge on one question: "What insurance do you have?"

Thirty years after surviving a rare brain tumor and earning, what People magazine coined, "the people's voice in healthcare," Stupid Cancer founder Matthew Zachary learned how to bypass America's convoluted healthcare system: Don't fix the system. Rig it in your favor. We the Patients: Understanding, Surviving, and Navigating America's Healthcare Nightmare shows you how to make the most of a convoluted system that's built to confuse and exhaust the very people it claims to serve. This patient proclamation shows you how to stay truly alive even in the face of illness, make meaning from chaos, and channel anger into advocacy. It covers:

  • Zachary's crash course in the American healthcare system after a life-threatening diagnosis at 21 and his mission to make it "suck less" for the next patient
  • The rise of patient advocacy and the growing movement to reclaim power from a system built to serve itself
  • The coming Fifth Healthcare Revolution, driven by a newly organized electorate, and what it means for every American

We the Patients is an unfiltered look at what happens when the healthcare system fails real people. It's a blueprint for fighting back, and a must-read for anyone navigating illness, caregiving, or just trying to stay human in a system that makes that harder and harder for us all.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword xiii

Preface xvii

1 We the Nightmare 1

2 We the Delayed and Denied 19

3 We the Survivors 45

4 We the Purpose- Seekers 65

5 We the Advocates 83

6 We the Consumers 103

7 We the Relentless 119

8 We the Organized 143

9 We the Patients 161

10 We the Revolution 175

About the Authors 181

Acknowledgments 183

Notes 187

Index 221

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeine Lexika
Genre: Importe, Medizin
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781394381333
ISBN-10: 1394381336
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Zachary, Matthew
Redaktion: Singer, Jen
Hersteller: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 235 x 161 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Matthew Zachary
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2026
Gewicht: 0,52 kg
Artikel-ID: 135304620

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