If you didn't catch Grant Achatz's appearance on the Oprah Show this morning, Chicago Celebrity Examiner has the recap. As we predicted, he shared the story of his tongue cancer — from the initial misdiagnosis by his dentist all the way through his fight against doctors who wanted to remove his tongue. The moral of his story: Be your own advocate.
We would argue that insisting to your oncologist that amputating your tongue would destroy your career as America's most promising culinary talent is perhaps the only instance in which it is acceptable to say "Do you realize who I am?"
Alinea's Grant Achatz on Oprah: What he did to save his tongue [Chicago Celebrity Examiner]
Grant Achatz on Tomorrow's Oprah? [previously]
