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Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

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Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

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Why do a proven medical procedure with a high success rate that makes logical sense (replace a busted liver with a healthy one) when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc

For the record, Jobs did get a liver transplant later that same year. According to the article.

Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

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post #3

Why do a proven medical procedure with a high success rate that makes logical sense (replace a busted liver with a healthy one) when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc

For the record, Jobs did get a liver transplant later that same year. According to the article.

He also put off treatment far too long because of his beliefs in alternative medicine.

Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

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Why do a proven medical procedure with a high success rate that makes logical sense (replace a busted liver with a healthy one) when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc

Because a good friend offered to cut out part of his own liver and give it to him, who would probably be dying soon, anyway? He took a transplant later. The article is about refusing Cook from cutting half his liver out. Jobs refused Cook, not the transplant.

Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

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Why do a proven medical procedure with a high success rate that makes logical sense (replace a busted liver with a healthy one) when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc

He did what he did. Belief is stronger than any medicine be it western or "witchcraft".

Re: Apple CEO Tim Cook offered Steve Jobs part of his liver, but he refused

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post #3

Why do a proven medical procedure with a high success rate that makes logical sense (replace a busted liver with a healthy one) when you can use homeopathy, witchcraft, prayer, etc

For the record, Jobs did get a liver transplant later that same year. According to the article.

Also for the record Jobs was offered a life saving surgery when initially diagnosed and chose "...alternative treatments like dietary supplements and juices."

I am astonished that somebody as worldly as Jobs chose to do that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2011/10/24/steve-jo...

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