Report: Jobs Considering Liver Transplant

(CNET)  As if Steve Jobs and Apple haven't commanded enough headlines during the past couple of weeks. Late Friday, Bloomberg reported that Jobs is considering a liver transplant.

In a telephone interview with Bloomberg's Connie Guglielmo, Jobs refused to comment on his health status: "Why don't you guys leave me alone--why is this important?"

The article, which quotes anonymous sources said to be "monitoring his illness," says that Jobs is weighing the transplant "as a result of complications after treatment for pancreatic cancer in 2004."

A spokesman for Apple said the company had no comment on the report.

On Wednesday, Jobs announced he was stepping aside for a six-month medical leave of absence. The mystery over his drastic weight loss has fed all sorts of speculation about what's ailing him. In an e-mail to Apple employees, Jobs wrote the following:


"...during the past week I have learned that my health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought. In order to take myself out of the limelight and focus on my health, and to allow everyone at Apple to focus on delivering extraordinary products, I have decided to take a medical leave of absence until the end of June."

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"I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for Apple's day to day operations, and I know he and the rest of the executive management team will do a great job. As CEO, I plan to remain involved in major strategic decisions while I am out. Our board of directors fully supports this plan."

By Charles Cooper

[dnamj]

Can''t he buy a liver in India?

[ladyephesus1]

Selling products to consumers has nothing to do with fate. I think some of your comments are ridiculous, cruel and incompassionate.

You guys are losers!!

[hereticzero-2009]

I remember my mother wasting away waiting for a liver transplant that never happened. She was in her 60s and when she would ask about how soon until a liver would be available, the doctors would take more tests, for appeasement, and then tell her they did not know when. She eventually was removed from the transplant list after three years of being led by the nose and having spent her life savings renting an apartment several hundred miles from her home to be near the transplanting team in Denver, Colorado, at the University Hospital. They brought in others from around the country and gave them transplants and sent them home while my mother received none. Getting a transplant is a do or die deal. It should be first come first served and no one butts in line, with few exceptions I would grant.

[Renegade.Rivers]

Although I do sympathize with Mr. Jobs plight, I don''t believe that he should have any special treatment on receiving a transplant. I watched one of my very best best friends wither away with a liver disease, due to Hep C, which he got from a blood transfusion while in Vietnam. At the time, he was about the same age as Jobs is now, and that was a negative in his being able to get a liver transplant.

The rules for getting a transplant are not as fair and unadulterated as one might believe. There are rules, and then more rules, and many people are not qualified to receive transplants because of rules that are many times to stringent, and unfairly applied.

If Jobs were able to buy his way to the top of the list for a donor liver, it would be unfair to many who are much younger, and who have a much better chance of survival, the reason that my friend did not get a new liver in time.

As for Jobs and his Apple products, over the years Jobs has over-hyped his products many times, something akin to a snake oil salesman. This is not to say that Microsoft nor Bill Gates are any better. Over the years Gates and Jobs have both taken the computer users for a ride, a ride that at times seemed like riding a bicycle without a seat.

While I do not wish Mr. Jobs any ill-will, I do believe that Karma can come back to bite one in the butt, especially when they have been unfair with the public, and on occasion even with there own proponents.

[jerr11]

One bad Apple ruins the bunch.

Posted by smurfcrusher at 08:10 PM : Jan 18, 2009



Yep I was a big Apple fan until Steve Scammer Jobs stepped in and scammed me of $299, sold me a worthless piece of Icrap that was advertised as having a battery life of 8 hours when it barely lasted 2 hours!!

And he wouldn''t replace the battery even when forced to do so by a class action suit.

Yep, I was a mac fan from System 7.5 until 9.2 but now no more Apple sh*it for me!!

The lesson I learned is if it''s an Apple product, it''s Buyers BEWARE.

If they advertise the battery life as last 8 hours, expect 2 hours.

And good luck if you want them to replace defective parts!!

APPLE DO NOT STAND BEHIND ITS PRODUCTS!!

[smurfcrusher]

One bad Apple ruins the bunch.

[jerr11]

Nasty comments must be coming from Microsoft people or Sony/Nokia/Samsung, beacuse they wish he is gone so that they can compete.

Posted by ford555551 at 11:45 AM : Jan 18, 2009



On the contrary I was a mac fan until I got screwed by Apple with the defective 2 hour Ipod battery which they falsely advertised as lasting 8 HOURS!!

And then to deny me a replacement even though it was court ordered because I was one day late!!

That turned me into a diehard truth squad about Apple''s practice of FALSE ADVERTISING.

Steve Jobs'' business model is to over hype, oversell and falsely advertise his mediocre toys.

And then REFUSE TO stand behind them when they turn out to be defective!

So I say once again.

When it comes to Apple products, it''s BUYERS BEWARE!

When they claim the battery life is 8 hours, expect 2 hours!

And good luck if you want them to replace substandard parts!!

[jabailo]

Karma would say that Jobs should be sold a liver in a white plastic box with brushed aluminum trim. It would cost twenty times that of a regular new liver but have the same functionality.

[lawyertom1]

It is always sad to see anyone suffer. However, if Steve is talking liver transplant, then either the cancer spread to the liver, or he has picked up Hepatitis along the way (e.g., from blood products, improperly sterilized surgical instruments). The other alternative, of course, is that he tried some of the so-called "nutritional supplements" that are touted for a variety of ills, and as a result suffered liver damage. Many of the herbs in such products are very dangerous and/or toxic, to be polite.

[ford555551]

Nasty comments must be coming from Microsoft people or Sony/Nokia/Samsung, beacuse they wish he is gone so that they can compete. I wish Steve Jobs complete recovery.