Our beloved DavidCPA also went to FIVE different doctors and basically did the exact same thing as Greg Atchatz. Yet I know none of you are mad at DavidCPA. I heard a different message: don't let dentists and doctors tell you nothing is wrong when you have so much pain in your tongue that you can't eat solid food. I think it is significant that Chef Atchatz did not go to a CCC for those four other opinions: I had stage IV and my team wanted to "spare" me the surgery. I was ecstatic about not having a PEG, not having a neck dissection and not having my tongue cut out. So I can really empathize with him
But I hear you all too as one year later, there I am being told I have to have all this surgery and may never be able to eat again or else I will die in six months to a year. Even worse, after the neck dissection and glossectemy, the pathology report comes back and they all tell me that even though I have had the surgery, the cancer will come back and my only hope is even more radiation and chemo.
I only wish my cancer had been caught before Stage IV and that is what I heard on the interview and what Oprah repeated as her closing comment. What makes me mad is that there are thousands of dentists and doctors out there who still do not recognize the signs of oral cancer. Just my opinion also, not any more valid than your feelings about the interview.
Charm