The Revolution Will Be Organized
From pediatric cancer survivor to patient rights activist: Why one man believes the next great advocacy movement isn't about cure rates, it's about preventing health insurance from killing you
In 1995, Matthew Zachary was a classically trained concert pianist entering his senior year of graduate school when his left hand stopped working.
He ignored it.
He was 21. He was invincible. So he ignored the headaches, the fainting spells, the gradual loss of function. He got through the semester. Then came the fainting spell that couldn’t be ignored, followed by misdiagnosis after misdiagnosis until…
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