MATTHEW ZACHARY has spent three decades fighting to make the American healthcare system less cruel, organizing millions through advocacy and media. A former concert pianist whose life was turned upside down by brain cancer at just 21, he founded ­Stupid Cancer, the largest nonprofit for young adults with cancer. He also launched The Stupid Cancer Show, widely regarded as the first healthcare podcast, which later evolved into the award-­winning Out of Patients. He produced Cancer Mavericks, a documentary series about the rebel patients who changed modern oncology. He is CEO and Co-Founder of We The Patients, a national movement organizing patients into ­collective civic power.

JEN SINGER is a bestselling ghostwriter and editor, and the author of The Just Diagnosed Guides. She has survived cancer, a complete heart block, and the American healthcare system.