
"It felt like someone stuck a knife in my heart,"
""exactly""
"I love what I do, and that didn't change,"
Jamie Dimon, the 69-year-old JPMorgan CEO, survived an acute aortic dissection that required emergency surgery and carried roughly 50% survival odds. He previously overcame throat cancer about a decade earlier. During the crisis he instructed his wife to tell the bank’s leadership exactly what was wrong so the company could act, and JPMorgan appointed co-CEOs as a contingency. Dimon thanked and later gifted nurses and doctors, and after an eight-hour operation he adopted a more deliberate approach to living while maintaining his strong commitment to his role and responsibilities.
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