JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has admitted that he suffers from “PTSD” following a “near-death” heart surgery in 2020.
“As I was being wheeled into the operating room for the dissection, I knew it was a 50-50 chance,” Dimon, 68, said of the acute aortic dissection he suffered four years ago. What Mayo Clinic Explains It is described as a “serious condition in which lacerations occur in the lining of the body’s major arteries.”
“Blood is flowing from my tears… [and] “Aortic dissection is often fatal when blood passes outside the aortic wall,” says the Mayo Clinic.
Still, “I had no regrets,” Dimon told The Wall Street Journal’s Emma Tucker. wide range of interviews Thursday.
One thing that “may have changed a little bit” after the health crisis is that Dimon feels a strong urge “to help this country and the free Western world.”
“That’s what’s in my heart,” added Dimon, who has three daughters with Judith Kens, his wife of more than 40 years.
At the time of the surgery in question, JPMorgan did not comment much on its CEO’s health, only telling employees and shareholders after the surgery that “Jamie suffered an acute aortic dissection this morning.”
“He underwent emergency heart surgery to repair the dissection and it was successful. The good news is that it was caught early and the surgery was successful. He is awake, alert and is recovering well. ,” then-JP Morgan co-presidents Daniel Pinto and Gordon Smith wrote in March 2020.
Six years ago, Dimon also beat throat cancer.
When asked by Tucker on Thursday how the experience of the “big cancer scare” changed him, Dimon quickly corrected the journalist by saying, “The cancer scare was cancer.” did.
He went on to say that the diagnosis made him “try to live my life a little more carefully.”
“I love my job, I love my family, I love all of those things, so I haven’t really changed anything, but I’m a little more intentional,” Dimon said of her cancer experience at the time of her 2014 diagnosis. added about. , the details were unknown but it was deemed “curable.”
Dimon, who beat cancer later that year and made his first public appearance in New York since completing treatment last month, spoke at an industry conference. Once this is finished, I’ll try to do it more directly. ”
During his weeks of radiation and chemotherapy recovery, Dimon assured JPMorgan investors that he had no intention of taking time off from work during treatment.
The main causes of most types of throat cancer are smoking, strong alcohol consumption, and the human papillomavirus, but Dimon has reportedly never bought a cigarette in his life.
Mr. Dimon, who was promoted to the top job at JPMorgan in 2006, has notoriously chosen to do aerobics, jog regularly and go to the gym at 5:30 a.m. since the early ’80s.
Representatives for JPMorgan did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
