Apple CEO Tim Cook was going to donate liver to Steve Jobs when he needed a transplant .This is stated in a new book by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli "Formation of Steve Jobs: The Evolution of reckless startup into an industry leader".
Author of a biography of Jobs promise to answer questions about how the ousted from the company businessman was able to return to Apple and to prove his prophetic gift. Schlender and Tetzeli argue that relied on an incredibly exclusive sources of information. Judging by the passage, one of the sources was the friend and successor, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook.
Once Cook was so upset about the news of the health of Steve Jobs, he decided to explore his own blood. It turned out he, like Steve, a rare blood type. Then he began to think about what could have become a donor liver for suffering from cancer of the pancreas other. We are talking about the events of 2008.
In the United States carried out about 6,000 transplants from living donors per year and the chances of success for both the donor and recipient are quite high for notes Newsrk .Especially the liver - regenerative organ transplant if the part is, it will grow to a normal functional size. The same thing will happen in the donor.
In short, Cook had a good chance to extend the life of Jobs for several years. However, he refused. "He cut me off in mid-sentence. No, he said, I will never let you do that. I'll never do that" - says Cook.
Tim Cook tried to convince the founder of Apple in the selfishness of his position, said that he is very close to death and transplantation could be a way out. "I said, Steve, I'm perfectly healthy, I checked. Here's medical report. I can do this and I do not put myself in danger, I'll be fine, "- says Cook. Jobs also was so outraged by the suggestion that jumped out of bed and began to cry. According to Cook, in 13 years of working together, he four or five times saw Jobs raises his voice, and it was just such a case.
According to previously published biography of Walter Isaacson Jobs authorship, in 2009, Steve Jobs went to Memphis for liver transplant. Before that, the team of oncologists for several months trying to convince a stubborn patient in need for transplantation. However, there was a problem: the donor with his blood group was very small, in addition, preference is given to patients with cirrhosis and hepatitis, not oncology. It became clear that Jobs can not wait for their turn.
"According to my calculations, to Steve in California would not turn came earlier than July, and doctors believed that his liver fails in April," - says Laurene Powell Jobs's wife. As a result, the donor for the founder of Apple was a young man who crashed into a car accident.The operation was not easy, but a death in the coming months, we will not go. Jobs after it lived for two and a half years.
Subsequently, the magazine wrote The Commercial Appeal, the surgeon James Eason has been accused of impropriety. As it turned out, he was at the time of surgery made a deal with the patient and almost two years living at the expense of Apple, but then also bought a 13-room house Jobs.
Justifying its decision to give donor liver Jobs, Dr. Eason said: "After the transplant, he gave the world the iPad, the new iPhone and iCloud. Not to mention, how many just preparing the project, he was able to take part. " The doctor gave a detailed explanation about the financial side of the issue. Detailed investigation has been conducted, but bioethicists condemned the position of the surgeon.
Steve Jobs has died in California in October 2011, a day after Tim Cook introduced a smartphone iPhone 4s. He was buried as a Buddhist. His "spiritual testament" Jobs was six years before his death.