no i thought that picture was from 2008 right before he started chemo. i remember he shaved his head because he didn't want to see his hair fall out (but he left the beard for the picture because it looked silly).
wait no just went back. page 24 of the cancer topic, he posted some pictures after his first week of chemo. the one picture i posted was the last one though, taken a few days after chemo. he's not nearly as swollen in that pic as in the others. he didn't start looking too "cancer patient" until like his 3rd round of chemo (because he was a tough mofo) so i think that picture i posted is a decent one of him, though certainly it's not like cooking with doop or jelly pizza or any other pics/videos like that.
EDIT: anyways i still think that there's a striking resemblance between the two. they have similar features. i wish i had better pictures of both of them... but yeah when i saw the Avatar movie i definitely thought "woah, that guy looks like Steel". (though as
other characters or as
himself, the actor (Dileep Rao) looks pretty different.) but yeah, Dr. Max Patel totally looks like Steel.