Anger and alternative-health and conventional-medicine and Steve Jobs

(Ref http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/04/steve-jobs-and-the-lure-of-alternative-healin/ )
I normally do not comment on others' writings; freedom of speech and all that. All people can have their own say; and it is not my place to refute some things that others have written.

But in this case, an article pushes too many of my buttons and the article is likely to really mislead some folks. The article is titled "Steve Jobs and the Lure of Alternative Healing"

The article starts out with "Steve Jobs’ decision to treat his pancreatic cancer with a vegan diet, herbs, juices and acupuncture rather than the surgery his doctors urged..." and ends with "... questions we should now be asking in the wake of Steve Jobs’ untimely death."

In between she claims her own father died because he took fish oil capsules instead of submitting to major chest surgery.

I think she had some bones to pick, blinding her to some things. (I have the same kind of problem myself, as a writer, at times.)

My reaction is a bit complex, as also was the many themes of the referenced article.

One is that the loss of Steve Jobs is a major loss to the world, and to myself.

Another is that I had never heard that Steve Jobs was at all into any sort of alternative health protocols.

What I do know, and was amazingly not mentioned in the article, was that Steve Jobs had long suffered from pancreatic cancer, and had been away from Apple for a long time because of it, on a previous occasion. During that time, he had a liver transplant, a major surgery, which he clearly submitted to; no fruit and veggies thing. And in itself the doctors overall did amazing things; several people I have heard about recently also died of pancreatic cancer, and invariably it is quick, very painful and unstoppable by anything. So that he survived at all to go back and do more great things at Apple and elsewhere for years, is a major credit to conventional medicine, one of their few successes in the field.

How the author of the article missed that major point, seems hard to understand, unless she was blinded by something, or simply did not do the research for the article ... which is written as if authoritative.

In a liver transplant, an organ transplant normally involves having to severely compromise the immune system, so the body does not quickly reject the transplant. But poor immune function leaves the body at risk from all kinds of problems. He lasted for years after the liver transplant, amazing, and very welcome. But for the contention of the article that we lost Steve Jobs because he did not submit to doctors' advise and their surgery, and instead tried a fruits and veggies diet "instead of submitting to surgery the doctors wanted" seems to have missed some major data; and is very misleading to the reader.

Now, I realize a common misconception of "alternative health" is to eat fruits and veggies instead of Super Sizers, and to workout in the gym. This does not know what it is about, at all.

And, could be that similarly Steve Jobs did not know any more about it either. Alternative health protocol knowledge is highly suppressed by the conventional medical business system; and it takes many years of trying things to learn first hand, for a person to begin to have really relevant knowledge. I doubt he had time for that, busy as he was, a high accomplisher. That he at last minute tried a cleaner diet to help the body have its best chance, considering his medically-destroyed immune system due to avoiding the liver transplant rejection, sounds like could be helpful.

But surely not full use of the Alternative Wellbeing full knowledge set. For example, alternative holistic wellbeing would first deal with suppressed anger issues, known to overstress the liver areas. For someone dedicated to enabling personal computers all his life, and dealing with doing that in the brutal business world, surely caused him lots of anger that he apparently had no means for relieving. Thus, little wonder it blew out his pancreas and liver, per that knowledge set. Deal with causes, and the body function failures are not so likely to happen, and not surgeries, immune destruction etc, needed (and thus less money for those folks, note. Follow the money.)

But that was not his followed path, despite the article's author's contention. He went full bore to get the high tech stuff done, "d__mn the torpedoes" in the harsh business rival world, probably having no idea about needing to be responsible for his own physical well being. If something breaks, take the body, like the car, to a fixer-upper shop; then get back on the road pedal-to-the-metal again.

I particularly have my buttons pushed about this, because his was the electronics world, and there were relevant electro-herbalism technologies developed in time to maybe have saved his life, but the heavy-handed suppression of them here in America probably kept him from learning about them. Even if he did, he, as an engineering-minded person in electronics - like I am - would have probably been too skeptical to even consider it even if he had managed to hear about it. It has taken me many years of testing of the technology personally, for me to grudgingly say that for sure, it can do some incredible things to help maintain a person's health. I would even say that it is likely that if doctors and hospitals had proper use of the same electro-herbalism technology, that thousands, maybe millions of people would remain alive and well that instead die each year. Responsibility? Do no harm? Or is it make highest income, instead? I too can get grumpy and off the edge, just like the article's writer, blaming this and that. And I have direct personal research knowledge of it all, not just hearsay.

I'm not a medical doctor. Am only an amateur scientist, in several fields of science, as hobbies. (Well, I also do formal scientific work in a field of biology as a volunteer, even currently.) The point here is that if it is science - instead of solely what one was taught and accepted without question - it is mandatory that one test, evaluate, the device or protocol, to see what it actually does in your own experience, before one can declare something works or does not work. That is the essence of the Scientific Method: do the unbiased testing in a completely capable mode, and find out what actually happens in reality. Happened that time, anyway. Repeat the test, get the data. See the trends, repeatability. Get others to do the identical test elsewhere, if possible, and compare notes. The general term is to "measure efficacy."

In electro-herbalism experimentation, one gets to test efficacy using the instrument one knows best: their own being, their own body. Evaluate before and after, and the fully described protocol in between. This is so easily done by an individual; it does not need hundreds of millions of dollars of FDA-required formal double-blind testing, to see if it achieved anything for oneself in a given test. there are many thousands of individuals who have already done such testing and generally find it is a working thing. Well worth formal research and inclusion in conventional medical practice.

Problem is, it appears to work too well.

Even the mere basic original Clark-30KHz-zapper does. Works much too well. As a personally owned and used low cost home instrument, in correct usage, my experience is that it would cut down on income in the conventional medical system an enormous amount. A wild guess is that it could cut down on doctor visits by ... 90% ... who knows. Much higher hospital recovery rate and less time in hospital, I would project.

And nobody wants to lose a good job. Medicine nowadays has the responsibility to be a very profitable business; instead of the responsibility to provide low cost consistent long term good heath for all Americans, using all means possible... including electro-herbalism and other alternative protocols that are found to work effectively, an efficacy-based system.

I wonder, what it would be like if the whole medical system's directive was of the latter type, instead of the former.

Quite a dilemma.

Black turtleneck sweater time

"Steve Jobs 1955-2011" reads the online news items. For someone I never met - that I know of - Steve sure made a big difference in my life.

That year 1955, when he was born, was also a major year in my life: My freshman year in college, and the year that somehow I changed from being a young man who got high grades with no interest in good grades, and read at 750 WPM with comprehension, to a young man who had extreme tinnitus endless screeching in the ears, ADD and could not remember what was on the page he had just read. What a situation.

So the time span of Steve Job's life covers the same time span as my own struggles to cope with that new scenario in my life. He sure had his struggles too; he did lots better than I did.

There in my early efforts in college I recall one of my wishes, that someone would build a "teaching machine," modeled after the reports I had read of books that were written with statements to be learned, immediately followed by the reader to respond to a question about the item just read. If the answer was not correct, the lesson was repeated, until the student got it right. There would be no exams without 100% learned, upon testing. Everyone would be an "A" student. Period. Nothing falling through the cracks.

I think Steve Jobs got that "teaching machine" built. It sits in front of me, called an Apple MacBook computer. Except no one has programmed it to do that simple read-answer, read-answer, instruction program on it.

I read that Steve Jobs was buried today.

He seemed to be a competitive-natured Aspey. Along with another one, Bill Gates. Quite a game. It seems to show me that an Aspey can have a competitive nature. Unlike me.

Apparently associated with being a achiever.

Steve is said to have dreamed of creating a computer where people could be creative upon it. I think I demonstrated that a bit today; affirming he achieved his dream of that.

Today I finally got my 2010 novel on the way. CreateSpace is now sending me a proof copy of the paperback version; and Smashwords seems to have initially approved my eBook version today too. I did not struggle to make a linked table of contents this time as it would have taken another day and that effort seems to be associated with epub rejections later. "Three Species on Lava World" is its title. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/94705 You can read half of it there for free. The cover came from a photo of the camping trip in 2009 to Mt St Helens, nearest thing to a volcano that I had a personal photo of.

The "graphical interface" that Steve's Apple Computer spread to the masses, made this book's creation possible for me to make. If I had to struggle with a DOS command line while writing on some machine owned by IBM that I had to stand in line somewhere for hours to use for a brief time - which would likely be the situation without Steve Jobs & Company - it just would not have happened, way too much struggle, distracting things.

Today I ordered online a black turtleneck sweater, like Steve Jobs seemed to wear a lot. Wearing black, in the "holistic" viewpoint, both blocks "negativity" hostility sent from others, but also unfortunately cuts down on one's own life energy. So it seems to me that probably wearing such attire would be best only during brief times, when one had to achieve, in a situation where hostiles might be poo-poo-ing you, yet you have to get the job done. I wonder if Steve wore such shirt too much of the time, reducing his life energy way too much, eventually cutting his life short. Yet at times it might be important to one's success, while enduring a peanut-gallery rivalistic arena, where creative harmony is all that is really appropriate to achieving the task at hand.

Apple's Steve Jobs can't be dead, he has too much to do yet

Too many prayers not done. Too many petty gripes not balanced with hoorays about neat things accomplished. Great sadness at hearing that Steve Jobs has transitioned.

Back in the mid-1980's, he was working off barely in my awareness as I struggled through my many personal life struggles at the same time he was creating Apple Computers. First I heard of Apple Computer, was hearing that the company I was working for in Sunnyvale CA was manufacturing flexible disk drives for Apple Computer, and it was helping finance the company that employed me at the peak of my career, Shugart Associates, a division of Xerox; I had become a non-degreed design-development electronic engineer, at the urging of my supervisor, Alastair Heaslett, in 1982.

Unknown to me, Apple computer was forming, in nearby - and often passed by in my travels - Cupertino, CA.

I did not become more aware of Apple Computer until my oldest son Paul, who was an avid Apple Computer enthusiast, got me aware of Apple Computers; and I bought my first Apple Computer in 1996, a Performa - 630c was it? - already obsolete and thus on sale, for my freshly laid-off low finances, at a Fry's electronics store. I had had a 386SX before that, running on DOS command line before that, itself a big step for me, but the Performa was what was hoped would enable me to find a new job, connected to the internet. The Earthlink.net internet connection came with 6 MB of web pages, so I got to learn how to make my own web pages, some of which remain at http://home.earthlink.net/~jedcline/

I type this on my Macintosh MacBook circa 2009 model. A thing made possible by Steve Jobs.

Who the news says has passed away tonight. At age 56. He ought to have been just taking another time out while getting ready to do more great things. But gone? Can't be; too much to do yet.

But clearly with the pancreatic cancer, liver transplant and all, he was dealing with suppressed anger issues, very intense. He probably did not know how to cope with anger issues; he was just an achiever, getting on with things despite opposition. Opposition that just seemed to be opposition, instead of an offerer of constructive alternatives.

I resist calling such "opposition" some bad names here.

Yet competition is said to drive new achievements otherwise not of interest; Apple was in competition with IBM. The monster huge invincible IBM.

I take another sip of my evening's ethanol beverage, no food in sight nor of interest. When the potential rescuer of America has - ceased - it is too much.

Lots of folks would be glad of this. They have harassed me for decades, too. (More suppression of calling bad names here.)

For my own part, I had neglected to keep Steve Jobs in my prayers lately. And I was focusing on minor irritations re my computer acting weird and obnoxious, clearly a virus had gotten in, probably with my trying to run old DOS stuff programs in an emulator. No good energy to Steve Jobs.

I had realized in recent months that Steve Jobs was the probable only person who could implement, in the private sector, the "Internet connected home manufacturing-education workstation" concept, often mentioned in this blog. A way to get all Americans back into contributing to the GDP while also expanding their skill sets, using computer technology.

(But no, some power-crazed folks want to rule America dividing it up into their own petty feudalistic kingdoms, protected by the nation's Cold War leftover nukes.)

I had also considered him potentially able to get Pixar to create an envisionary animated movie about my KESTS to GEO concept to save civilization.

But I had no way to contact him. And I now suspect - dimly - that he did not want to take on all the opposition, the foot-dragging and sabotage, all over again - of opponents who want to continue to do things the same old way, despite those ways don't work in the long run, but they provide wealth in the short term.

Could be, he had just said he wants out. Enough is enough. People did not give him enough appreciation energy, and instead focused on the fringe small problems. Myself among them, too often.

Nevertheless, I have a MacBook here in front of me that holds another sci fi novel book I have been writing, and is almost ready for self-publishing, thanks to the technology that Steve Jobs & Co made possible for me to do here on my home personal computer despite living in retirement poverty. I'd better keep it rolling. Lest more be wasted. And, my MacBook is enabling me to explore my tiny step improvement in an electronics-related technology that I dreamed that could save Steve Job's life - along with countless others - if only there were a way to get around the obstacles put there by those who gain great wealth from others illness misfortune. On to make another tiny step and see what results.

You can't get there from here? Steve Jobs proved that you can. Almost.