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December 10, 2013
Steve Jobs' Liver Transplant Under Scrutiny
[From article]
Dr. James Eason, who performed the March 2009 liver transplant, moved into the palatial house Jobs bought for his recovery just a few months after the operation, according to a report.
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“It strikes me as a potential conflict of interest,” said Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist for New York University.
Shortly after it emerged that Jobs had the surgery in 2009, Eason issued a statement saying that Jobs received the transplant “because he was … the sickest patient on the waiting list at the time a donor organ became available,” based on a scoring system known as the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease, or MELD.
http://nypost.com/2013/12/10/house-deal-by-steve-jobs-doctor-raises-eyebrows/
Jobs doctor’s house deal raises eyebrows
By Kaja Whitehouse
December 10, 2013 | 1:26am
New York Post
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