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Did he? Can you do that in order to move up the transplant list? I didn't know that.
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Steve Jobs Regretted Using Alternative Medicine; Delayed Treatment
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Did he? Can you do that in order to move up the transplant list? I didn't know that.
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mrplunkey
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I don't know. I was asking a hypothetical.
Is it ethical for someone to buy their way up the transplant list if it helps other people get transplants?
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bakemeacookie
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No. Shoudl OJ get out of jail if he donates $50M to inner-city schools and cancer patients?
If i'm waiting for an organ, i dont' want rich people to use their money to get organs. Me being dead does nothing to me. However, the rich & famous get treated differently in this country (and others) so society accepts it. How he got a liver in his dire condition is something we'll never knoew. Doubt any politician wants to 'investigate' considering how popular Jobs legacy is.
http://global.christianpost.com/new...cist-asks-did-steve-jobs-waste-a-liver-57529/
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jnevin
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I'd guess an executed Chinese prisoner. Not the kind of shit that ends up on your normal donor list.
Just a guess though.
redsamurai
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I'll have to read the biography cause it seems like he learned nothing from his illness. It sounds like he was a major conceited self absorbed dick throughout the whole thing. Of course herbs and spices aren't going to heal you by themselves,there is no magic pill not in alternative nor in mainstream medicine. There are people who have utterly cured themselves of cancer without any mainstream medicine. When you read what the went through though it isn't some petulent story of going around paying this person or that person to "heal me". They changed who they were....obviously jobs didn't get that lesson if he was as that short little excerpt portrayed him. People have been writing about what an asshole that guy was for years, one of the biggest.
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mrplunkey
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So even if a rich person using their money to get to an organ significantly increases the overall number of organ transplants (including to those who do not use their money), you'd be against it?
Don't blame his death on alternative medicine. He pussed out at the idea of surgery. Our immune system is only capable of doing so much. He probably could have had the tumor removed and done follow up with alternative medicine and might have been just fine. My chiropractor is just about the most hard core alternative medicine person I know but when he had bladder cancer he still had the tumor removed surgically. He chose not to do after care in terms of chemo or radiation, which is also considered alternative.
Like you people keep telling me, you make a decision, you go the course and accept the consequences. You don't like the outcome, oh well. Don't go throwing the baby out with the bathwater (my experience with real estate ownership is a good example).
Put it this way, if I turned up with a lump or something somewhere I'd probably have the lump chopped out but pass on the poison.
There are good, effective alternative medicine practitioners and snake oil salesmen (just like there are good conventional doctors and and bad ones). From what I've read about his cancer, and from what I know of good alternative medicine docs, he was probably told to get the surgery and then come back for follow up, and kept searching until he found one that gave him the answer he wanted to hear.
Like you people keep telling me, you make a decision, you go the course and accept the consequences. You don't like the outcome, oh well. Don't go throwing the baby out with the bathwater (my experience with real estate ownership is a good example).
Put it this way, if I turned up with a lump or something somewhere I'd probably have the lump chopped out but pass on the poison.
There are good, effective alternative medicine practitioners and snake oil salesmen (just like there are good conventional doctors and and bad ones). From what I've read about his cancer, and from what I know of good alternative medicine docs, he was probably told to get the surgery and then come back for follow up, and kept searching until he found one that gave him the answer he wanted to hear.
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