wednesday and is connected to the opening of the u.n. general assembly. turning now to france. cnn s challah ga lardie, an exclusive interview with carla sarkozy. in an unauthorized biography quoted as saying michelle obama told her life in the white house was hell. she joins me right here in new york for more on this. you had a conversation with her. an interesting woman. finds her way into controversy dwight regularly. she does, and when she came to new york, she came with the head of the global fund, the fund to fight aids, tuberculosis and malaria. the interview was based on her work as an ambassador for the global fund, but, of course, tell-all books that came out in france with all this talk about her potentially using police files to spy on rivals inside the palace. it doesn t sound like a soap opera anymore. it s like dynasty back in the 80s. the big news in the united states, you mentioned about something relayed in the book that she said or reportedly said
someone has, say, a little discomfort. feels a little nauseous. they think, i m okay. i ll take an antacid. if it gets worse i ll go in. it s not unusual for someone to have the symptoms and wait before they go to the hospital. a documentary is coming up on your book, the empowered patient which i love. it s just it s so usable, the information on there. tell me about the documentary. the documentary is terrific. we talk to real empowered patients who saved their own lives, or saved the life of someone that they love by being an empowered smart patient and advocating for themselves under difficult circumstances. october 2nd and 3rd, 7:00 p.m. you ve got to watch it. you ve got to learn how to save your own life sometimes. elizabeth, thanks so much for that. good to see you. see you back in atlanta. our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen. crime. we all know it doesn t pay. it actually costs. it doesn t necessarily only cost the person committing the crime. should
holding public hearings on genetically engineered salmon. scientists say the salmon is safe to eat, but critics are calling it frankenfish. joining us now, elizabeth cohen. she s the author of the empowered patient. elizabeth, what is different about this salmon as opposed to all the ordinary salmon we ve always been eating? wolf, this salmon grows much faster. here s the issue. regular salmon, the kind we eat all the time, they only have growth hormone in their bodies during the warm weather months, so that means they don t have growth hormones when it s colder. so here s what scientists did. it s pretty interesting. they went to another fish called an ocean pout, which does have growth hormones in its body all year round, they took that gene, that growth hormone green from the ocean pout and they put it into the salmon. so now the salmon instead of taking 30 months to reach
get psae testing, he doesn t fel it s worth it so it s ati valid option. i know it sounds weird, wow, there is a cancer test, i want it. in this case you might not want it, that is a valid option. well, elizabeth cohen, for moreal information about your health and your family pick up a copy of elizabeth s book, the empowered patient. a good one to pick up. lots of great advice in there. thanks. t stories coming your way in two minutes. t hey, lawrence, my parents want to talk to you.
for any particular supply, but maybe they ll go over your overall bill and reduce it. you never know until you try. there s nothing that gets your blood boiling than thinking about having to go back and forth with the insurance or the hospital. in your book the empowered patient, you talk about what it is like to try to battle your insurance company. what do you do to get somewhere as opposed to just get heartburn? you have to try to sort of take a deep breath and you re negotiating the hospital and also the insurance company. two different people. one thing that helps is if you get your insurance through your employer, ask your benefits department to help you out. i know i ve had to do this before, and they re very, very helpful. insurance companies are more likely to listen to your employer because they represent a lot of money. you represent just one person. so if you get it through your employer as most americans do, use that employer to help you. what are you going to do w