I'm glad that the article got out, it got the basics right, and told an important personal story. But I was really disappointed with the writer who spent an hour and a half on the phone with me, and still didn't get what I said correct. Then at the 11th hour, 30 minutes before it had to go to print, sent me 4 sentences to proof, not the whole article as she promised the day before. I would have reworded some of the points for her. As to Amy's part, she got the story out and more people will hear about oral cancer and early detection. Every story matters, even if it has a few technical issues or misquotes in it.

Unforturnately this is the way with the media. Some are better than others, for instance Amy Marcus who interviewed me for the Wall St. Journal, not only let me read it all before print to get my quotes right, but had an independent fact checker verify through me and others that the facts in the story were indeed correct.