On June 20, 2009, Steve Jobs has a liver transplant. How do I know this? Because the Wall St. Journal printed a story that he received a liver transplant in Tennessee.
The question that I have is, how did the Wall St. Journal find out?
In 2006, the National Enquirer obtained Britney Spears’ medical information from a UCLA Medical Center administrative specialist. The paper paid the employee more than $4,600 for the actress's medical information. The employee pleaded guilty to a felony charge of violating federal medical privacy laws for commercial purposes.
As proper disclosure, I do not own Apple stock, although members of my family do, and to be frank, the amount of stock is not material.
Is anyone investigating how Steve Jobs’ medical information somehow ended up in the Wall St. Journal? Doesn’t he deserve the same level of privacy as Britney Spears?
On June 23, 2009, the Methodist University Hospital in Memphis, TN announced, with Steve Jobs permission, that it was the hospital where Steve Jobs’ liver transplant was done. One of the things that bothers me is why did the hospital have to disclose that it was where the operation was performed? Was it overwhelmed by press inquires? The Wall St. Journal article indicated that Methodist University Hospital was one to two hospitals in Tennessee that could have performed the operation. How much chaos did this article caused this institution?
How much of our personal lives do we have to have to give up because of where we end up in life?
I am somewhat bothered that I’ve asked many more questions that are going unanswered. I’m also bothered that it somehow occurred to me to compare Steve Jobs and Britney Spears. And in closing, I wonder if the Wall St. Journal understands the chaos that it caused?
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