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Why Bill Clinton is alive & Steve Jobs is not..
Depends How do you select your surgeon or a Hospital.
Assuming you are sufficiently rich and powerful, how do you hire the best finder to find the best ?
As per information available in public domain:
Steve Jobs was diagnosed with Pancreatic tumour and was advised the only mode available -removal of tumour, the earlier the better. There was metastasis in Liver but curable.
Steve tried alternate therapy for 9 month before yielding to surgeon’s scalpel. But finally when he took his private Jet to Memphis( the center with shortest waiting period in these situations, statistically the best ) for a Liver transplant, he was 9 months late. He had already tumour deposit in peritoneum. Had he been anyone other than CEO of Apple, the Liver would have been allotted to next person in waiting but he was Steve Jobs.
He got it & died 2.5 years after the transplant.
He selected the statistically best hospital (Of course from Insurance website ) got what he wanted rather than what he needed & didnot survive.
In 2004 when Bill Clinton wanted a Hospital for Multiple Coronary Block requiring complex cardiac surgery, his finders selected the hospital that had highest mortality for such operation.
Why did Clinton picked this hospital and this surgeon & survived ?
… The intention to treat.
In US if the survival statistics of a center is poor it is under probation & soon insurance will take it out of coverage. If my hospital does not take up any risk cases, I shall have Zero mortality. But that does not make me the best in the field. Clinton’s people managed to figure it out that this hospital with the highest mortality was actually having the experiece of taking up the most difficult & high risk cases. Hence worth trying.
It turned out to be enough to keep him alive .
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