'Sex' actor: Being bad saved his life

Courtesy CNN.com - Health  Thu, 10/02/2008 - 8:13am

Actor Evan Handler says being a bad patient saved his life. Handler, famous for his portrayal of Harry Goldenblatt, Charlotte York's husband on Sex and the City, suffered from leukemia in his twenties.

In this week's "Empowered Patient" he spoke to CNN Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen about how to misbehave in the hospital.



 

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