Jobs Health Concerns Related to Food Absorption, Not Cancer?
Two people who are familiar with Mr. Jobs's current medical treatment said he was not suffering from a recurrence of cancer, but a condition that was preventing his body from absorbing food. Doctors have also advised him to cut down on stress, which may be making the problem worse, these people said.
Jobs underwent surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004, and he claimed as recently as July 2008 that he remained cancer-free. Concerns about Jobs' health were revived in mid-December when Apple announced that he would not present at Macworld Expo in San Francisco in early January, but he officially announced on the eve of Macworld that his health concerns were due to a "hormone imbalance".After hours trading in Apple's stock was temporarily halted as the news was being released, and the share price temporarily dropped 10-12% upon resumption of trading before settling at an approximately 7% decline from the close of regular trading earlier in the day.
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Hmm... I don't know of any food absorption problems that make you leave your job for 5 months.
Oh, so you're his doctor?
Hmm... I don't know of any food absorption problems that make you leave your job for 5 months.
food absorbtion issues can obviously cause serious health problems. leaving your job being one of the milder consequences.
arn
Oh, so you're his doctor?
No. But what problem makes a doctor tells you, "Well this problem will last exactly 5 months" besides a very common disease like cancer? With cancer doctors can predict how long treatment will take.
That's just my opinion. And it doesn't really matter much - when it comes down to it, he's sick.
No. But what problem makes a doctor tells you, "Well this problem will last exactly 5 months" besides a very common disease like cancer? With cancer doctors can predict how long treatment will take.
That's just my opinion.
This doesn't really mean much. Doctors could tell you to take time off for various reasons and various time frames depending on the severity of the issue. I won't speculate as to jobs' specific illness, and it certainly may be very serious... but your reasoning (that there's a timeframe, therefore it must be cancer) is flawed.
(and I am a physician)
arn
No. But what problem makes a doctor tells you, "Well this problem will last exactly 5 months" besides a very common disease like cancer? With cancer doctors can predict how long treatment will take.
That's just my opinion.
Edit: What arn said.
Hmm... I don't know of any food absorption problems that make you leave your job for 5 months.
And you got your degree in human medical diagnostics where?
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