Matthew Herper reports for Forbes, “The National Enquirer has reported that Steve Jobs has only six weeks to live based the paper’s analysis of photographs that purportedly show the Apple founder. Hogwash.”
“Even if the photographs are real, the estimate of how much time Jobs has left, or any speculation about his condition, is baseless,” Herper reports. “You don’t have to take my word on that – you can listen to Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society and a noted oncologist.
“‘Based on a photograph or even based of a videotape of someone giving a presentation on stage, it is impossible to make an estimation of someone’s life expectancy,’ says Brawley. What’s more, he says, it’s not even really possible to make those kinds of estimates after a real exam,” Herper reports. “‘I can’t look at someone’s picture and immediately say they’re sick,’ says Brawley.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “It’s not even really possible to make those kinds of estimates after a real exam.” – Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society and a noted oncologist, February 17, 2011
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly receiving treatment at Stanford Cancer Center (with photos) – February 16, 2011
Yeah…no shit.
Idiot tabloid Dr needs to be hauled before Board and reamed.
And in other news….. Duh!
Although his ailment is different, Professor Stephen Hawking is the champion of defying the “experts” (who said he would survive only two or three years after being diagnosed with ALS). He’s been defying them (doctors who actually examined him), while continuing his brand of one-of-a-kind brilliance, for over THIRTY years.
At least we’re giving the man his privacy … yay for us!
“Those that the gods would destroy, first they make proud.”
And no one is more proud than an MDiety.
And the stock sells off due to inaccurate speculative journalism, amazing !!
Sell-off? All I see is a 1.3% dip. Over the past few years, AAPL has dipped more then fifty times (while the rest of the market ended up positive), when there were no news on Jobs’s health.
If the dip is related to these articles, it is insignificant. It has barely touched the previous all-time high close (two days ago).
Sell off? Not much of one. AAPL is down less than $5; these days, AAPL goes up or down $5 on a “normal” day. A $5 change is less than 1.5%. More and more, the price of AAPL is NOT tied to every tabloid rumor about Steve Jobs.
Is the National Inquirer available on the Samsung Galaxy Tab? I want to read the article.
Estimating life span from a photo graph? Sure!
I know a guy who knows a guy in New Jersey. You give him a photograph of a guy and the right incentive and he’ll have 6 days to live! 😉
And the stock sells off today based on speculative inaccurate journalism–makes sense to me–and since this publication is know for its truthfulness.
Which is about 3 weeks longer than the Enquirer’s business model has.
To do a quote “I’ll just him (the soothsayer) my picture so he can do a colonoscopy on me next week”.
Attribution to L. Black
Recently there was a photo in one of those tabloids showing Osama bin Laden marrying Kim Jong Il (Kim was the bride of course). I mean photos don’t lie. And the headline said it right there so it must be true. Osama looked very happy and excited about it all.
Yup, even science is not an exact science.
Besides. . . When has a bird cage liner like ‘the National Enquirer’ ever had any credibility?
Clinton- Lewinsky
John Edwards
Tiger Woods
You people need to get a life.
I did a rotation with Otis Brawley in medical school – honestly. He’s a great doctor and all the others who make these comments about Steve make us look bad.
Cubert, medicine is just a profession it doesn’t represent a unity such as those who studied it in anything other than exactly that, unfortunately people are people and their decisions are most of the times independent. So that’s a good for you.