Well if you know that "this is a much touchier medical issue than he lets on", then surely other people do too, no?
This article is hardly damaging to anyone but Twyla, and even so, her reputation precedes her and this "incident."
He's paid to be a gossip columnist, not a journalist. And while I don't agree with much of what he writes, that's his job, just like Liz Smith, Page 6 and Paul Wontreks column.
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity -- Harlan Ellison.