Washington Post
Investigative journalist
Murray Waas says he's never discussed his health problems because "I don't want to be known as the reporter who had cancer." He reveals that he sued George Washington University Medical Center for failing to diagnose his cancer, winning a $650,000 judgment in 1992. "I feel almost relieved getting it out," he tells
Howard Kurtz, deciding to go public after getting calls from Washington City Paper. "I'm just fatigued from trying to hide it."
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"I did not die from cancer," writes Waas. "I was that one in a hundred, or that one in a thousand, or that one in ten thousand, or that one in the impossible. Please don't ask me. I just dunno."
(Huffington Post)
