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To: neocon1984

So, if it is a national list, why does the article say he moved to Tennessee because the list was shorter?


36 posted on 06/20/2009 2:56:53 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: CharlesWayneCT

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.


38 posted on 06/20/2009 3:21:32 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: CharlesWayneCT

You asked — So, if it is a national list, why does the article say he moved to Tennessee because the list was shorter?

LOL..., because the press can’t seem to get its facts straight...


52 posted on 06/21/2009 11:35:21 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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