"Can we call Steve Jobs an idiot yet? Or are we still talking about how awesome he was? Because soon we’re going to have to call him an idiot, too.Apple co-founder Steve Jobs refused potentially life-saving cancer surgery for nine months, shrugging off protests from his family and opting instead for alternative medicine, according to the tech visionary’s biographer.
When Jobs eventually sought surgery, the rare form of pancreatic cancer had spread to the tissues surrounding the organ, biographer Walter Isaacson said in an interview with “60 Minutes” on CBS, to be aired Sunday.
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Isaacson confirmed details that had previously been speculated upon or widely reported, including that Jobs might have been cured of his “slow-growing” cancer had he sought professional treatment sooner, rather than resorting to unconventional means.
“He tries to treat it with diet. He goes to spiritualists. He goes to various ways of doing it macrobiotically and he doesn’t get an operation,” Isaacson said in the interview.
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(Source: chicagotribune.com)
