Writing on TheBigMoney.com, Mark Gimein has a thought-provoking piece about why the press should stop poking into the medical condition of Apple’s founder….

When I sat down to write this story, I agonized over where exactly to begin. A history of Steve Jobs at Apple? A discussion of the raging national debate about the privacy of medical records? Jobs’ open letter on Apple’s Web site explaining that he was suffering from a hormone imbalance with a “relatively simple and straightforward remedy”? The stunning back-and-forth about Jobs’ health on CNBC? It quickly became clear to me, however, that the best way to start was, in fact, by asking folks to step into Steve Jobs’ shoes.

It’s an important perspective.