Comments on: Hospital confirms Steve Jobs' liver transplant

Apple's CEO "has an excellent prognosis" after undergoing liver transplant surgery about two months ago at Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, doctor says.

[uglo]

Bull! He was NOT the sickest person on the waiting list, he was just the richest. Don't you people know you can buy your way in this world. Of course, he can do nothing, nothing, if the liver fails. You can't buy life in the end, that is in God's hand.

[mshidden]

Hope your feeling better

--Mark

[Saltiva]

This is a HIPAA violation- News media is the biggest violator of HIPAA! I bet Jobs paid quiet a "contribution" to that Hospital- That's what these rich people do in our health care system in the USA! while us poor folk wait in line dying- bet Jobs' MELD score wasn't even close to the highest!

[ckh1272]

@Saltiva--Prove it, since you obviously have some mysterious insight. Until then, get a freakin' life and let the man live his. As far as HIPAA, Jobs gave permission for that info. to be released by the hospital, or did you somehow miss that part of the article? Otherwise, I do agree that the media has often circumvented HIPPA regulations to gain private info.

[Fil0403]

Jobs gave permission for this info to be released and I'm sorry but I think a doctor is in a better position than you to comment on his MELD score, if you think it "wasn't even close to the highest" you should give some substantial evidence that supports that.

[Fil0403]

As I already stated before, if certainly not for his arrogance, attitude, and childish obsession with everything Microsoft, especially Windows (could actually be a good thing if only he would use it to learn lessons instead of spreading FUD about them), I admire his professionalism in going back to work and I hope he is well now, but the way Apple handled this is IMO just a prove of how unprofessional Apple can be in dealing with situation that are not exactly positive for them and IMO they should be ashamed of themselves.

[kristenmcc]

If you work hard, pay your dues, pay for your own schooling and then everything it takes to "make" it, there are perks. If not we would all work as burger flippers and we wouldn't aspire to be much more. That may be your choice but it wasn't mine being brought in a welfare home with 22 million now in the bank after working 10 years very hard and retiring at 32. I was not the valedictorian, I did not have a silver spoon, but I worked for every penny and earned it. Now I need a liver and you better bet I will take advantage of all that money can buy as the good will of this industry far supersedes the actual inner working of UNOS and the bureaucracy of this federally run agency with it's questionable use of MELD scores as oppose to actual patient health is as error ridden as any system ever created. Doctors who know the patients best and who needs immediate and urgent care should have the leeway to distribute organs as they see fit. Not based on economics or anything else, just basic good old fashion patient care. I have been listed in NYC and will have to wait another 6-9 months while cancer ravages what is left of my liver as my MELD score is a low 22 with tumor points but I am much sicker than my MELD. It is called being underserved by MELD and well, it sucks to be the one at the top of list when someone equally sick if not sicker in actuality takes your organ, but it is what it is. No one paid anyone and it sounds to me like this was a man with the means to afford leaving his home district in hoped of getting transplanted sooner. I am now in VA for the same reason, insurance covers my expenses to and from my home in CT and well, they are transplanted people who are sick with MELDs of 22-24 as being at the top of the list. NYC would have me waiting another 6-9 months of staggering difficult medical concerns while I wait. Why would when I can get to another district with a much quicker and the expeditious transplant could save me and my husband and my kids the prospect of me dying. Think about, get to work, make some money and then use it for your own travel to zones with lower wait periods. Discrimination???? you have to be kidding me. I hate that low lifes are getting transplants before me, a productive member of society, not a burger flipper by choice.