• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    Source on this? I read that Tim Apple offered a donation and Steve refused. I have not read that he had the surgery.

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      17 hours ago

      He did get a transplant, in TN. Not in CA where he lived. He used his wealth to add himself to a areas with more donors and fewer on the wait list because he could hop on a jet unlike normal plebians.

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        5 hours ago

        That doesn’t describe jumping a line, it just describes waiting in more lines. Is that all there was to it?

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          4 hours ago

          At the surface level, but there’s more to it than that. Transplants don’t work by taking a number and waiting, they assess the person’s current condition as well. Since he waited and tried to cure cancer with fruit he fucked his liver and basically got to skip the line in another state. This was only possible because he had the transportation necessary. It’s not an option you or I could use and say, just book a flight.

          That also means that someone in a slightly better condition (But mind you, still needing a new liver) would have been passed over in their own state.

    • easily3667@lemmus.org
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      1 day ago

      You can literally just look on Wikipedia. Tim cook offered part of his, jobs said “nah I want a whole one from some poor person” and the rest is history.