When executives go under the knife
Steve Jobs may be the biggest name to hit the health headlines in recent years, but he's hardly the only exec to take a step back from corporate life to handle health issues.
Steve Jobs, 54
After a six-month medical leave that included a liver transplant in Memphis, Tenn., Jobs is on the job again. While Jobs handed the reins to COO Tim Cook during his time away, the ever-determined CEO was spotted at Apple's Cupertino headquarters 10 days before his scheduled return.
This wasn't his first health scare: In 2004, Jobs had a tumor in his pancreas removed, pronouncing himself "cured" of pancreatic cancer. And when questions arose about his significant weight loss last year, he attributed it to a hormone imbalance, a medical description that some doctors called cryptic.
Jobs's condition during his leave was kept largely under wraps, igniting talk of whether Apple owed its shareholders disclosure of his situation.
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