Steve Jobs and governator tout transplant reform
Posted in Biology, 19th March 2010 23:20 GMT
The über-private and über-reclusive Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a rare non-keynote public appearance on Friday, joining California governor and action-film hero Arnold Schwarzenegger to promote organ-donation legislation.
The San José, California, Mercury News reports that the tech world's most famoustransplant recipient joined the governator at Palo Alto's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, a few miles north of One Infinite Loop.According to the Merc, Jobs said he had been fly to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis - presumably in his private Gulfstream V executive jet - "within a four-hour window" to receive his donated liver.
When Jobs returned from his medical leave and appeared at a September 2009 gathering of the Apple faithful in San Francisco, he said that transplant had been donated by a person in their mid-20s who had died in a car crash. At that event, he thanked the donor for “their generosity.”
The Merc reported Jobs as saying in Palo Alto on Friday: "Last year, 400 other Californians died waiting. I could have died." ®
The San José, California, Mercury News reports that the tech world's most famoustransplant recipient joined the governator at Palo Alto's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, a few miles north of One Infinite Loop.According to the Merc, Jobs said he had been fly to the Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute in Memphis - presumably in his private Gulfstream V executive jet - "within a four-hour window" to receive his donated liver.
When Jobs returned from his medical leave and appeared at a September 2009 gathering of the Apple faithful in San Francisco, he said that transplant had been donated by a person in their mid-20s who had died in a car crash. At that event, he thanked the donor for “their generosity.”
The Merc reported Jobs as saying in Palo Alto on Friday: "Last year, 400 other Californians died waiting. I could have died." ®