We all know that a US shock tabloid is running with a story involving Steve Jobs' health and his possible ongoing treatment (no, we're not linking it). Plenty of news outlets have quoted chunks of this story verbatim, including the grim assessments of several physicians who base their comments and presumptive outcomes on pictures of Steve printed in this paper.
We're not going to comment on the 'substance' of the story except to say that we hope everyone will give Steve and his family the privacy we all would want for ourselves or our loved ones while dealing with health issues.
However, it's worth considering the doctors quoted in this matter. An oncologist contacted by a British paper was circumspect about Jobs' prognosis -- he only reiterated the obvious, that if Jobs is photographed leaving a treatment center it is rea