Steve Jobs took another medical leave of absence earlier this year with no estimated return date. The National Enquirer has now published some scary looking photos of Steve, which depict him looking thinner and perhaps more ill than ever.
The Enquirer followed him from breakfast to the Stanford Cancer Center. It says he has weeks to live, based on analysis of the photos by Dr. Gabe Mirkin and Dr. Samuel Jacobson. Neither are oncologists or have seen Steve in person. Mirkin, a radio talk show host, claims he has a "20-year track record of spotting breakthroughs and recommending effective treatments long before they become standard medical care" and makes his assessment of Steve based on the appearance of Steve's butt in the photos. Yes, this doctor is making a butt-diagnosis, remotely.
The National Enquirer has been right about things before, like the John Edwards affair. These photos do depict Steve. (We're only showing part of the image.) And Steve very likely was at the Stanford Cancer Center, since Radar is independently reporting it as well.
No one knows why he was there—no one has seen the medical records. The Enquirer is also wrong a lot—especially when it comes to proclaiming that celebrities have mere weeks to live. (Patrick Swayze, God bless him, beat their gruesome prognosis by a year. Kirstie Alley and Oprah will both be dead in a couple years by the Enquirer's reckoning.) The photos are shocking, but nearly every magazine retouches photos.
And just a couple weeks ago, Steve was supposedly spotted on Apple campus looking spry with a "full, genuine smile."
We hope that the Enquirer is wrong. And that's what our gut tells us. But who knows.
北京时间2月17日早间消息，美国八卦杂志《National Enquirer》在最新一期上刊登了一张苹果CEO史蒂夫·乔布斯(Steve Jobs)的照片，照片显示乔布斯非常憔悴。该报同时报道称，乔布斯可能仅剩下6周的生命。
报道称，乔布斯目前胰腺癌复发，他的健康状况可能比之前披露的还要糟糕。照片显示，乔布斯看上去非常虚弱，他身穿的牛仔裤和黑色上衣对于他的体型来说已经显得太大。
这张照片目前尚未被发布至网上，因此还没有对苹果股价造成影响。报道同时称，乔布斯的体重已经从患癌症之前的175磅下降至130磅。而稀疏的头发表明，乔布斯目前正在接受化疗。这张照片拍摄于2月8日，当时乔布斯正准备与妻子劳伦·鲍威尔(Laurene Powell)共进早餐，随后前往斯坦福癌症中心。
医师杰罗姆·斯彭博格(Jerome Spunberg)表示：“由于癌症复发，乔布斯很可能在斯坦福接受了门诊化疗。”医师加布·米尔金(Gabe Mirkin)则表示：“他已经到了晚期。你能看见由于热量消耗引起的肌肉萎缩，这是由于癌症引起的。他的臀部已经看不见任何肌肉，而这是癌症最后侵蚀的地方。”
米尔金同时表示：“从这些照片看，可以肯定乔布斯已经到了生命的晚期。如果他的体重还能超过130磅，我会感到非常惊讶。”一名近期见过乔布斯的消息人士则表示：“他非常虚弱，活动时就像一名脆弱的老人。当他走路时，他前后摇晃，似乎无法维持平衡，而每走一步的痛苦都表现在脸上。”
乔布斯此前与癌症进行了勇敢的对抗，在前往癌症中心接受治疗的前一天，即2月7日，乔布斯还在苹果工作了一整天。报道称，只有约4%的胰腺癌患者活了超过5年时间。