“I’m not a member of the Steve Jobs fan club, but I have sympathy for the man and the way his health has been treated as a tabloid spectacle. Take, for instance, a report (which has been updated 6 times already) that Steve Jobs may require surgery to remove the remainder of his pancreas, and that such a surgery might turn him into an instant diabetic. Or so says a doctor who has not treated Steve Jobs and actually has no direct knowledge of his exact condition,” Ken Fisher writes for Ars Technica. “I might expect this of ESPN, but not Bloomberg. Are people making financial moves on AAPL in this market based on such speculation? “

Fisher writes, “On the bright side, at least Bloomberg didn’t just come out and explicitly say, ‘Yeah, he’s done for.’ That job was left to Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay, who talked to Wired. ‘Despite all the protestations, I think he has cancer. They talk about digestive this and digestive that, but … forget all the buzz you’re hearing. Just look at the photos,’ he said, as if you can diagnose terminal illness via a color photograph.”

“The fact is, no analyst, unrelated surgeon, or yogurt shop owner knows what’s up with Steve Jobs,” Fisher writes writes. “No level of speculation and rumor will force the situation to change: Steve Jobs is on medical leave and doesn’t wish to tell us the intimate details about why. He has left a team of very capable executives in charge, and the company will move forward. He hasn’t retired, so every expectation is that he intends to come back.”

“And he’s a fighter… Don’t write off Steve Jobs yet,” Fisher writes. “You can bet there will be One More Thing. Hopefully, many of them.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Cathy" for the heads up.]