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.
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.
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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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited June 2009
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?
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."
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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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited June 2009
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.
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.
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I have to give him props. With the money he has he could have bought a liver anywhere.
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."
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.