It was nearly 4 a.m. when Steve Jobs' gleaming private jet finally touched down. The lights at Memphis International Airport cast a halo of fluorescent gold around the $40 million, 15-seat Gulfstream as it completed its 1,800-mile journey from California, an overnight Hail Mary across three time zones.
Waiting in a car on the tarmac that crisp March 2009 morning, Dr. James D. Eason greeted his famous patient, the reclusive tech icon known worldwide for the iPhone and decades of innovation. As head of transplant surgery at Methodist University Hospital Transplant Institute, Eason would perform a rare type of liver transplant on 54-year-old Jobs in the hours that followed, extending his life by 2 1/2 years and giving new life, too, to a bedeviling question of medical ethics.
Simply put, did Jobs, the iconic billionaire CEO of Apple Inc., the most visible organ transplant patient in the world, cut in line in Memphis?
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