Not all doctors are created equal

I'm amazed at the people claiming that it is the stockholders' right to know. Right to know what? Surely it's blindingly obvious what is going on. Are they expecting hourly tweets of Steve Jobs' T cell count?

The silly thing is that if they only left him in peace there would be a greater prognosis for recovery and a quicker return to work.

The same silly stockholders are demanding Apple publishes a CEO succession plan. The succession plan is this: if Steve comes back then he will be CEO; if he doesn't then Tim Cook or someone else will be CEO. End of plan.

TUAW: it's a good post. It really is tabloid 'journalism', sensationalizing a public figure with a "mysterious" condition.

@chriskzoo5 Sorry, gonna be "blunt" right back at you. You're an being an idiot, and disrespectful. Jobs met the shareholder obligation by announcing his withdrawal from day-to-day. If the market feels there's a 15-20% padding, the stock price would have dropped to reflect so. As is, market appears to be either a)short-sighted and focused on recent/current/imminent and predictable business goals. or b) the market believes apple's culture of innovation does not lie with any one (or two or three) individuals, and the investors in aapl do not care if the ipad2 has a retina display or the iphone5 has a 4" display: but they do care if the Apple mobile offering has the opportunity to expand via new products and partnerships (eg verizon)

Oh, and I'm a cancer survivor myself with plenty of friends in that unfortunate club who have both prominent and mundane jobs throughout the world. Diagnosing from afar isn't journalism its sensationalizing. Steve jobs doesn't give a rats ass if some hack reporter thinks he's dying or not - but the rest of us who've gone through the uncertainty of diagnosis, pain of treatment, and lifetime of anxiety that a cancer history gives you resent the implication that an outsider can insert themselves into your world with uninformed pronouncements. Cancer is complicated - here's hoping the stanford docs are able to help Jobs in the same way they helped me.

There are plenty of prominent personalities, bloggers, etc who are open and inviting to people sharing their story - often up until the end. Go read one of their stories.

Steve is said to be 'of the persuasia'.

Are there nude photos of Steve?

Discuss!

I am an oncologist as well as an Apple nut. It was somewhat irresponsible for the MDs quoted to comment on Steve Jobs condition without any real knowledge of what is going on.

As it turns out, there are some brand new drugs (multitargeted TKIs) that treat his kind of cancer (the stories are in this week's New England Journal of Medicine). They are not traditional chemotherapy, and you can work and generally do all the things you normally do during treatment. My guess is that he is receiving something like that at Stanford, if he has not received them already.

Skepticism wins again!

Classy! As someone who has family members who have fought cancer I thank you.

I love my Apple products, but let's be honest - Steve Jobs is THE major cog that makes that company run - from getting the designs exactly right (and not pushing sub par designs out early) to creating that aura that makes consumers want to buy their products. I'm not sure why TUAW is taking a holier than thou attitude about someoen reporting on Jobs being at a cancer treatment clinic.

He had cancer in the past, he had a liver transplant; it's reasonable for people from both a shareholder and end user perspective to think his outlook could be dire. How many people do you know that have had cancer, and organ transplant, and lived to a ripe old age and didn't have some further episode that brought life to a quick end? Not many, if any at all.

We all live in the Jobs reality distortion field, but lets not extend that distortion field beyond Apple products and to his health. Hey, it sucks, but that's life.