The TV Zone

Former CBS News heavyweight, and best-selling author, Richard Cohen, is launching a radio show on WABC this Sunday. Cohen - who's waged a long battle with MS and has beaten colon cancer twice - told me "that there are TV and radio doctors all over the place but no where is there a show that is all about the patient's voice. So this show is gonna be people telling their stories...The whole idea is to give them voice, and not to the doctors." He adds that "what I discovered is that there's a real sense of community and connection with people who are sick, and I have learned that they draw strength from each other."

His two books, both big sellers, are "Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, a Chorus of Hope," and "Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir." The show is also called "Strong at the Broken Places" and title comes from a famous line in a letter Hemingway once wrote to Sherwood Anderson: "The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places."

Show bows Sunday at 6.