10/31/2011 @ 11:47AM

Why Steve Jobs' Magic Doesn't Work In Medicine

As Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson made the PR rounds everywhere from 60 Minutes to the Daily Show, the terribleness of Jobs’ too-early death has come into focus: that Jobs evaded conventional medicine when his tumor first appeared, may have died as a result, and regretted it.

“I think that he kind of felt that if you ignore something, if you don’t want something to exist, you can have magical thinking,â€