He’s baaaaaaack

Robert Hallock 29 Jun, 2009 at 3:05pm ET Article published in Tech

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1. 
   29 Jun 2009 ~ 3:12pm Snarkasm And he's going to PUMP
   
   YOU UP.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 3:21pm BuddyJ Steve can get a new liver, but I still can't replace the battery in my iPhone ...
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 3:43pm Snarkasm The stockholders are apparently a little upset... him getting a liver this quickly means he was in serious jeopardy, and the company played it off as if it was a diet issue. There might be some investigation coming out of it.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 3:44pm Thrax And yet their stock is higher than ever. LOLZ.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 4:02pm QCH Self filling prophesy... they would have pulled out of Apple had they known in fear that the stock price would fall... now they will cause a stink about NOT losing money which will cause them to lose money.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 5:40pm DrLiam He doesn't look too good to me. I don't think we're going to see him in any commercials any time soon.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 6:07pm Thrax It's an old picture for flavor purposes.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 7:35pm Komete Snark, from what I've read he got a liver so quickly because he had the means to be on different waiting list throughout the country. Anyone could do the same thing, you just have to be able to fly around the nation to make all your checkups. So he basically was in 10 lines or whatever many at once.
   
   I have to give him props. With the money he has he could have bought a liver anywhere.
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   29 Jun 2009 ~ 10:07pm Leonardo

   he got a liver so quickly because he had the means to be on different waiting list throughout the country

   
   1. How do we know he got one "so quickly." How long was he on a waiting list?
   2. It would be good to back up that rumor with something solid.
   
   Look, I don't own one single piece of Apple anything, so I'm hardly an Apple/Jobs fanboy, but I think we could be fair, no?
10. 
    29 Jun 2009 ~ 10:10pm Nemikan Is it bad if my first thought when seeing this title was Michael Jackson?
11. 
    29 Jun 2009 ~ 10:28pm Komete

    Leonardo wrote:

    1. How do we know he got one "so quickly." How long was he on a waiting list?
    2. It would be good to back up that rumor with something solid.
    
    Look, I don't own one single piece of Apple anything, so I'm hardly an Apple/Jobs fanboy, but I think we could be fair, no?

    
    C'mon man, you should have quoted my whole statement. I didn't say he cheated the system or he jumped the list. You me or whoever can get on multiple liver transplant lists in different cities and states. We just have to have the ability to fly out to different states at the drop of dime or we loose our spot on the list. You'd also have to be one of the sickest on the list and Jobs was one sick billionaire.
    
    I applaud him. If I was receiving dialysis on a regular basis and I was a billionaire, I don't know if I'd have the character to wait my turn to get a liver. Like I said, he could have easily bought one on the black market. With his money, he probably could have done it and no one would have ever found out.
    
    Here's a quote from NY times on the matter
    
    "And yet, there are ways to work the system to one’s advantage. Waiting times for a liver vary in different parts of the country, and people who can afford to travel are free to go to a city or state with the shortest wait and bide their time until they have reached the top of the list, a donor dies and an organ becomes available. Indeed, some patients rent apartments or stay in hotels near a hospital and wait for the phone to ring. It may not seem fair, but it is not illegal.
    
    It is even conceivable that someone could go to the time and expense of registering for the waiting lists of several transplant centers around the country.
    
    “If you had access to a jet and had six hours to get anywhere in the country, you’d have a wide choice of programs,” said Dr. Michael Porayko, the medical director of liver transplants at Vanderbilt University, one of the Tennessee centers that has said it did not treat Mr. Jobs."
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    29 Jun 2009 ~ 10:32pm Komete Here is the link. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/business/23liver.html?_r=1&ref=technology
    
    If he was just registered in Tennessee because it has the shortest waiting list or all over the nation It doesn't make a difference to me. When it comes to me living or dyeing, I'll do whatever it takes to live.
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    29 Jun 2009 ~ 11:09pm Leonardo Komete, thanks for the explanation. I naively thought there was some type of national registry. I was unaware that more than one donor/transplant list existed.
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    29 Jun 2009 ~ 11:43pm Komete No problemo Leo. If Jobs wouldn't have gotten a liver transplant and I hadn't read about it I wouldn't have known about the waiting list situation. Make since though. It's a timed situation so you couldn't fly one from NY to California.