Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111022:14:44:00
Sniet turns out to be a rare form that's curable with surgery. i had the vurj i and thankfully i'm fine now. >> reporter: but author walter isaacson tells "60 minutes" that jobs initially resisted the surgery doctors were recommending. >> he tries to treat it with diets, goes to spiritualists, goes different ways to do it may crow bilaterally and he doesn't get the operation. >> why doesn't he get operated on immediately? >> i asked him that. he said i didn't want my body to be opened. i didn't want to be violated in that way. >> reporter: isaacson conducted more than 40 interviews with steve ...