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From: John Brockman Sent: Friday, April 1, 2011 1:27 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: miserable week JE, »checking in, how are youop The second operation, scheduled for this past Tuesday. turned into a =iserable experience. We arrived at HSS on time at 10:30 and were told =e were on schedule and to get ready. We were put in a double room for =repping. I had not eaten since midnight and stopped drinking liquids in =he morning. But I did manage to take a couple of Xanax walking in, to =et me through the ordeal. Instead of rapidly proceeding to surgery we sat in the room (with me in =ospital clothes in a bed) for at least four hours while three other =ets of patients came and went and had meetings with their doctors, =nesthesiologists, etc. In the meantime I was starving and desperately =rying not to hear the medical talk on the other side of the curtain =hat makes me ill. Finally, long after the xanax wore off, they came for =e, to me to OR, gave me the anesthesia, and fours later I awoke to find =ut they couldn't operate because my heart was racing much to fast wit =n irregular beat. The result was imprisonment in recuperative care for =4 hours - as though I was a heart attack victim - with beta blockers =nfusions of magnesium, constant checking about low blood pressure. But prior to being wheeled into OR a nurse took by blood pressure, said =t was low, and didn't tell anyone in OR. And the hospital doctor didn't =heck me (he had done so two weeks ago for the first operation). Patrick O'Leary, the surgeon, stopped in Wed am while I was still in the =ospital to say we has rethinking his plan for me and in this regard he =ad me get an MRI before I left. His latest thought: rest a month and =hen come back for the second operation. He also mentioned that the =econd operation was dangerous. But strange that all this conversation =appened after the operation was to have been finished. The hospital medical doctor - a Dr. Lefkowitz who clear =atients for surgery called to say O'Leary wants me to see him for a =tress test next week and other possible heart tests (echo - =ltrasound). He, or another hospital doctor - prescribed a bottle of =eta-blockers - Metraprolol XL 25MG 25 MG for Toprol X for me to take =very day but not the day of the stress test. I don't think there's anything wrong with my heart other being scared =nd starved to death by the environment at the hospital. And I'm not =eady to go see this other doctor or to start taking Beta Blockers. In =ther words, I go in for a cervical spine problem and suddenly I'm a =ardiac patient. I'm it buying it. It's also really strange and =isconcerting being in a hospital recuperation ward getting a lot of =rescription drugs fed intravenously by a nurse when the doctor who is =rdering them is not on the floor nor is someone connected to any of the =octors I already know. Finally, this was a major surgery scheduled for =t least 4 hours. It seems weird that they were planning to begin at 4pm =n the afternoon. O'Leary wanted me to come in Monday to talk, but he's away until a week =rom Monday when I have an appointment with him (April 11). In the =eantime, my internist (who I've been with for 40 years) has a hunch he =ay not want to operate. The 2nd opinion from Michael Mayer in Munich =as to operate, see how it goes and whether the second operation even =ecessary. I am definitely out of my depth on this one. Instead of coming our of =SS today with both surgeries done, I feel like I'm in Alice in =onderland. EFTA_R1_001 54505 EFTA01806713 I will be in the office at 11am if you have time to call. JB p.s. Read David Brooks this week. His entire column Tuesday and his =log Wednesday on my EDGE site. It doesn't get any better: THE NEW YORK TIMES March 29, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/opinion/29brooks.html?_r=2&ref=opini=n OpEd Column TOOLS FOR THINKING By David Brooks ""We'd certainly be better off if everyone sampled the fabulous Edge =ymposium, which, like the best in science, is modest and daring all at =nce." THE NEW YORK TIMES March 29, 2011 More Tools For Thinking http://brooks.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/29/more-tools-for-thinking/ Brooks Blog There were many superb entries in that symposium, and I only had space =o highlight a few, so I'd like to mention a few more here. "Before I do, let me just recommend that symposium for the following =easons. First, it will give you a good survey of what many leading =cientists, especially those who study the mind and society, are =hinking about right now. You'll also be struck by the tone. There is an =cute awareness, in entry after entry, of how little we know and how =omplicated things are. You'll come away with a favorable impression of =he epistemological climate in this subculture." <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1301664413</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> 2 EFTA_R1_001 54506 EFTA01806714 <integer>22</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>146409</string> </dict> </plist> 3 EFTA_R1_00154507 EFTA01806715