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发帖数: 16092 | 1 Did Steve Jobs hasten his own death by relying too much on holistic medicine?
One Harvard Medical School researcher says he did.
In a post on the question-and-answer site Quora, Ramzi Amri said the form of
cancer Jobs has was mild and he should have survived.
“Let me cut to the chase: Mr. Jobs allegedly chose to undergo all sorts of
alternative treatment options before opting for conventional medicine,”
Amri said in the post, which was reported by Gawker. “This was, of course,
a freedom he had all the rights to take, but given the circumstances it
seems sound to assume that Mr. Jobs’ choice for alternative medicine could
have led to an unnecessarily early death.”
Amri, who is not a doctor, cites a litany of statistics which he says shows
how treatable the pancreatic tumor Jobs is reported to have had is.
Jobs could have probably had the tumor surgically removed, had he caught it
in time, Amri said.
“This is a relatively low-risk treatment that — especially compared to
chemo and radiation — has negligible disadvantages,” he wrote. “In many
cases, a simple enucleation (just cutting out the tumor with a safe margin
around it) is enough and leaves no residual side-effects.”
Amri then points to what he says is evidence that Jobs eschewed traditional
treatments and instead chose to focus on this work.
“While Mr. Jobs was trying all sorts of alternative mumbo-jumbo I won’t
even bother to go through as their failure is now sadly irrefutably proven,
his tumor grew, and grew, and grew and then it somehow grew beyond control,
” Amri wrote.
“Jobs seemingly waited long enough for the disease revealed to have spread
extensively to his liver,” Amri continued. “The only reason he’d have a
transplant … would be that the tumor invaded all major parts of the liver,
which takes a considerable amount of time. Years, in most neuroendocrine
tumors.”
Amri, who is a researcher at Harvard Medical School and says he has one-and-
a-half years experience researching this type of cancer, then attempts to
explain why Jobs may have refused traditional medical care.
“Now Mr. Jobs always was a free thinker, a strong believer in spirituality,
a vegetarian and a known skeptic of conventional medicine,” Amri wrote. “
He chose to reject conventional medicine altogether for a while. He’s not
alone in that.”
But perhaps the most important statement Amri makes is what he says early in
this post.
“I do not pretend to know anything about the case on a personal level and I
never participated in the care of Mr. Jobs. I base all my cancer figures on
sources from biomedical research known to me,” he wrote. “I have no
knowledge of the specific case, I’m just trying to give insights.” | t*********m
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