The doctor who made Jobs liver transplant charged untidiness

Dr. James Eason, a surgeon from Memphis, who made Steve Jobs liver transplant operation in 2009 and later bought a house that belonged to lived for almost two years due to the representatives of Apple. It turns out that during the operation, he signed a deal with Jobs. This fact became known after the publication of the article Mark Perruskiya "Southern Transplantants" in the Journal of Commercial Appeal.

MarkPerruskiya colorfully tells about the dramatic operation, although most of the details, and taken from the biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson. So begins the first paragraph:

"About 4 o'clock in the morning a private plane Steve Jobs finally landed. The lights of Memphis International Airport reflected in the windows of 15-seater Gulf Stream, has completed its way from California across 3 time zones "

Dr. Eason, however, has already responded to some of the questions that Perruskiya raises in his article:

Steve Jobs was the first in the queue for a transplant? In 2009, Eason said: "At the time when a donor organ became available, Jobs was the most critically ill patients from those who were in the queue"

But if Jobs was so sick (and the operation did not help seriously prolong his life) as Eason could justify its decision to give the liver to him? "After the transplant, he gave the world iPad, the new iPhone and iCloud", - he said in an interview Eason WMC-TV after the death of Steve Jobs, "Not to mention, how many still upcoming projects he could take participation".

Of course, this argument would also be appropriate if we were talking about any other person valuable to society, such as the president. Moreover, it is a great way to avoid talking about the financial side of the issue.

The fact that Eason acquired from dummy, Apple's owned, 13-room house of Steve Jobs in Memphis, he became known at a meeting of the expert committee on Health in June 2012, of the year. "It's a fair question," - he said, telling the committee members that no "deal" was not between him and Jobs.

But, according to the Commercial Appeal, Eason said the commission is not the whole truth.

"Eason then started divorce proceedings and moved to Jobs' house for two years before they bought it. Since the summer of 2009 to May 2011, when the purchase was formalized, utilities and property taxes paid by George Riley, a lawyer Steve Jobs in San Francisco "

"Records indicate that Riley wrote out personal checks totaling more than $ 23,000 for the payment of property taxes. Riley also used his bank card paying for electricity, gas and water (total - 14 payments totaling $ 8,000) in the house where Eason lived before bought it "

Eason himself states that he lived in the house in the spring of 2010.

Not the most shocking discovery. However, one of bioethicist Arthur Caplan of the New York University, finds the situation "outrageous".

"It angers me, really, he thinks we are so gullible that we believe, when he said:" You know, I was just lucky. Yes, I lived there, and this guy just decided to pay for my stay "

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Obviously, the motives of Dr. Eason were not the most disinterested. Or still not? Let's discuss in the comments.

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