HOLLYWOOD, CA — Moments after jokingly showing a Powerpoint slide that read “70/100 – Steve’s Blood Pressure,” Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs was rushed from a technology conference to the set of the Fox hospital drama “House,” where Hugh Laurie, in the middle of rehearsals and dressed as Dr. Gregory House, diagnosed Jobs as suffering from “inverse blood pressure syndrome and acute fake hypochondria.”
Jobs, who showed no signs of any malady other than thinness and a fit of giggles over the slide, was taken to the “House” set in Hollywood by worried Apple staffers who believed conventional doctors have been refusing to reveal Steve’s real illnesses out of fear they would lose their medical discounts for purchasing iMacs. “Dr. House works miracles every week,” said Jobs’ personal assistant Lisa Fuji. “We just knew he could figure out what’s wrong with our god and personal savior … I mean CEO.”
Hugh Laurie, not really a doctor but a longtime Mac user, played along after Jobs secretly slipped him a new iPhone filled with episodes of “Blackadder” and “Jeeves and Wooster,” Laurie’s previous shows where he speaks with a mysterious British accent. “I told our writers to take notes,” said Laurie. “This could be the plot of our ‘Jump the Shark’ episode.”
With the stock market already in the dumpster due to the world banking crisis, the incident had no negative effect on Apple’s stock price. In fact, some analysts predicted the price would rise since Jobs was taken to a popular TV hospital rather than the low-rated “E.R.”
After getting a clean bill of health and an autographed bedpan from House/Laurie, Jobs was returned to the conference, where he resumed his talk by putting up the next slide that read “68.9 – Steve’s Temperature.”
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