--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@...> wrote: <snip> > Jobs clearly signed his own death certificate with the > strange idea that he could force a rare form of > pancreatic CA into remission through diet.
Actually, no, that isn't at all clear. Just for one thing, if the cancer had already spread to his liver when it was discovered in his pancreas (metastases to the liver might well not have been detectable at that point), surgery to his pancreas wouldn't have helped, so the delay may not have done any harm. And apparently he spent months after his diagnosis consulting with many physicians. Delaying the surgery was a thoughtful, considered decision, not a hasty, panicky one, and certainly not a blind one. Several physicians (including one on his team) think that under the circumstances, delaying the surgery wasn't an utterly unreasonable choice, even though they would have recommended that he have the surgery sooner. It wasn't as cut-and-dried a situation as those who are scornful of any nonstandard treatment (but who, like Vaj, have no medical expertise) would like to believe. There were many different factors involved, the facts of most of which are known only to his physicians and family. The NY Times had an article going into all this the other day: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/health/hindsight-is-kind-to-steve-jobss-decision-to-delay-surgery.html http://tinyurl.com/5u8vyc8 > The only good news in this case is now I may eventually > get Flash on my iPadÂ…but otherwise what a waste of a > life, all based on holding strange untenable beliefs. Or the luck of the draw. We have no way of knowing, and it's ignorant and arrogant to pretend otherwise.
