JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon reveals he has ‘PTSD’ from ‘near death’ heart surgery: ‘I knew it was 50/50’
NY Post
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon admitted that he has “PTSD” from a “near death” heart surgery that took place in 2020.
“When I was being wheeled in the operating room for the dissection, I knew it was like 50/50,” 68-year-old Dimon said of the acute aortic dissection he suffered from four years ago, which the Mayo Clinic describes as “a serious condition in which a tear occurs in the inner layer of the body’s main artery.”
“Blood rushes through the tear, … [and] if the blood goes through the outside aortic wall, aortic dissection is often deadly,” according to the Mayo Clinic.
Even so, “I didn’t have any regrets,” Dimon told The Wall Street Journal’s Emma Tucker in a wide-ranging interview Thursday.
The one thing “maybe that changed a little bit” after the health crisis is that Dimon has a greater urge to “help this country and the free Western world.”
“That is on my mind,” added Dimon, who shares three daughters with his wife of more than four decades, Judith Kenth.
