WSJ: Steve Jobs had a liver transplant two months ago

By on Jun 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM
General June 20, 2009

Gentlemen, they can rebuild him. They have the technology. According to today’s The Wall Street Journal, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs went under the knife approximately two months ago in a Tennessee hospital and received a liver transplant. Why? The Journal speculates that the pancreatic cancer Jobs was diagnosed with in 2004 had slowly but surely spread to his liver, an occurrence which is by no means uncommon for those who have had pancreatic cancer. Seeing as the talk of cancer spreading to Jobs’ liver is nothing but an unsubstantiated rumor at this point in time, it really makes us wonder — shareholders rights or the right to privacy? Either way, we wish Jobs a speedy recovery.

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  • Cliff

    @Nerdherder,
    What does that have to do with someone having cancer and then undergoing a liver transplant?

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • Nerdherder

    @Cliff

    Think about it you brainiac.

  • http://www.hernandezlawAZ.com Conrad Hernandez

    Steve Jobs = Mozart = Magic.

    I hope he has full and vigorous recovery!!

    Thank-you for your cooperation,

    Conrad Hernandez

  • MadMike

    I understand the man is a very public figure and the chief officer who is in charge of a very wealthy corporation under whose insight and direction can make or lose massive amounts of money which can equate to loss or profits to millions of shareholders. However, as a human and a US Citizen (not that non-citizens are precluded, but the US is big on privacy) he deserves some privacy.

    However, that’s just my $0.02.

    On a side note, I do wish him well. Major surgery, especially transplants have many factors and impending complications. All the more why we should just leave him alone until he returns to full-time duty at Apple.

    (Disclosure: I am an Apple Shareholder)

  • Cliff

    @Nerdherder,
    I understand what you are saying, just thought the reference was a little off putting, that’s all.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • ~Phel

    I wonder how many people he got in front of on the donor list because of his gobs of money…

  • http://www.abundantace.com/ ace

    From some of the comments I read at other sites about this news, a lot of people are angry about this. How can Jobs be the “sickest patient on the waiting list”? Seems that the hospital that did the surgery saw dollar signs and a “free publicity” opportunity to make more money.

    Doctors are the number one killers in America. Not car accidents, plane crashes or cancer. Doctors. Healthcare has become so expensive that those who REALLY do need to have treatments cannot afford it unless if doctors and hospitals can screw your health insurance over real good.

    Put the blame for healthcare cost where it really belongs. Greedy doctors and big pharmaceutical companies. The medical industry is not in the business of “saving lives”. They are in the business of generating death. Death makes them money. Not life. Not natural items, herbs and plants.

    In essence, doctors who take the “hippocratic oath” of “do no harm” are just hypocrites. Knowledge is power. You have to be your own doctor, medical advocate and do your own research. Because if you don’t, the choice will be made for you. And the choice won’t be in your “best interest”.

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