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Posted on 06/20/2009 9:14:34 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Got It In Tennessee Two Months Ago, WSJ Says
Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces a GPS feature on the new iPhone 3G as he delivers the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Web Developers Conference June 9, 2008, in San Francisco.
Steve Jobs, who has been on medical leave from Apple for the past six months, received a liver transplant in Tennessee two months ago, according to a report Friday in the Wall Street Journal.
Earlier this year, Apple's CEO was reported to be relocating from California to Tennessee, which has a shorter waiting list for patients seeking organs, the report noted. In January, after Jobs announced that he would step aside from his day-to-day duties for a six-month medical leave of absence, Bloomberg reported that Apple's CEO was considering a liver transplant. In a telephone interview at the time, Jobs refused to comment on his health status.
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Transplants are not cost effective - hundreds of thousands of dollars for the transplant, then tens of thousands a year for anti-rejection drugs.
Scratch that. It is not cost effective for the government to pay for it. But for those paying out of pocket, it is a cash cow for those receiving money.
Obamacare could follow the Chinese model on transplants, with organs from citizens going to foreigners who can pay.
Let's face it - there's probably ten thousand Mac-heads fanatical enough to sacrifice themselves so their St. Steve can live just one more minute.
I write that as an Apple fan, with 4 Macs, an iPhone, and an iPod. I'm a ex-professional Mac developer. And I appreciate all that Jobs has done for the industry. But a lot of members of the Cult of Apple are just that nuts.
“When ObamaCare comes online, there will be enough livers, hearts, etc for EVERYONE!”
Yeah, everyone will be an organ donor, like it or not.
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Prayers for Steve.
Mac-heads’ livers go into the pool. They cannot designate who it goes to. Backroom deals can be made. But any hospital and surgical team that works that way is probably located in another country.
I always felt that the Mac folks were a bit cultish. The Mac was probably a better product than the PC 20 years ago (at a lot higher cost), but now the only difference seems to be fewer virus attacks.
You get extra credit for that one. Creative and timely.
lol...
Transplant waiting list? The Steven Jobs. You’ve got to be kidding.
If the report is true (which I doubt) then it was because of metastisized Pancreatic cancer... However, as I said I don't think the report is true for the reasons I outlined in another thread.
Make that ZERO virus attacks. There are fewer than 20 Trojan horse attacks—which require the complicity of the Mac user to install—in the wild
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Best wishes to him.
*PING* to this thread.
Cheers!
Well, first of all, only 56 percent of those living in this country own homoes, and when we tried to increase that, we found that the rest can’t really afford a house.
I doubt there are that many people who could afford to buy a 2nd residence and move there and make it their home. Remember, you’d be stuck with your first house unless you were lucky enough to sell it, and you’d have to find a job in the new location that paid enough to afford the mortgage on two houses unless you sold your first house.
So, if it is a national list, why does the article say he moved to Tennessee because the list was shorter?
My wife told me a lady in our Church donated a portion of her Liver for her daughter. The daughter recovered quickly but Mom (the donor) took awhile?
It may have been easier to be listed at a higher score (thus more likely to get a transplant) by the medical team he consulted. That would be a medically unethical practice, particularly in the transplant world.
Note that he did not go to the premier Southern medical center: Vanderbilt, in Nashville. They would not inflate his degree of illness to place him at the top. I know those folks.
Do you recall that Walter Payton died of kidney disease before he made it up the list for a transplant? His celebrity status did not help him one bit because his doctors played by the rules.
If Jobs’ doctors manipulated the system, they may be in a world of hurt for unethical practice.
This is one of the reasons why I am skeptical. Doctors and hospitals who are found to have played fast and loose with the transplant list rules will find it very hard to get organs for later procedures. Would they risk it?
Steve Jobs is a recognizable, iconic figure. Think of how difficult it would be for a large transplant capable hospital, composed of several hundred or even a thousand employees, keeping such a secret... especially in a world where the tabloids offer tens of thousands of dollars for information on celebrities? How could you prevent just one of the many orderlies, janitors, nurses aides, clerical staff or even a patient on the same floor, from calling the National Enquirer or the Globe and saying "How much would you pay me for information on Steve Jobs' whereabouts and his medical treatment?" The temptation would be too great.
I am beginning to think this rumor is a construct made up by an unsourced blogger building on previous rumors.
We don;t really know how long he was on the waiting list. My wife says that Kathleen Harris on FOX News also donated a portion of her Liver for her daughter...
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