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It appears the book glossed over what actually happened. Jobs worked with a number of alternative medicine con artists, to no result, obviously. Obsessing doesn't work when the methodology is wrong, and alternative medicine is the wrong methodology for treating serious medical problems.

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Maybe I'm just glossing over it. The sense I got from the book was that he did a lot of stuff with diet and alternative medicine, but he also refused to focus on the problem until it was too late. One would hope that if he were that focused on it, he would have changed his mind about treatment in time to actually do something about it, rather than letting it sneak up on him for a year.

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