EFTA Document EFTA01792081

From: John Brockman Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:13 PM To: Jeffrey epstein Subject: Feel better? SENT FROM MY PRIVATE EMAIL ACCOUNT > Feel better? JE, Feel fine. No pain, only inconvenient. But anxious. So I wrote up the history and wrote/talked to to three friends: Mike =azzaniga, Ramachandran, and Eric Kandel. Then I emailed the surgeon =ast night who had not given me his opinion about surgery as he hadn't =een the EMG tests yet. His people called today and said he wants to see =e in a month on Feb 7. I told them the neurologist was pushing with a =ense of urgency to have an operation asap. The surgeon's guy said the =as now seen all the test results and is comfortable with seeing me in a =onth. So he's obviously not pushing me to go to the hospital. In the meantime, I'm doing PT twice a week and going to look for =eldenkreis or Alexander person. Below are some responses. Thanks for you help and support. JB KANDEL CONVERSATION Spoke to Eric who said to avoid neck surgery unless its absolutely the =ast resort. He wants me to come up to Columbia to see his colleague - =inda Lewis, who he says is the best neurologist he knows. And to bring =ilm and test results. Tel no. RAMA RESPONSE From: "V.S. Ramachandran" te. Date: January 11, 2011 1:21:14 PM EST To: John Brockman < > Subject: Re: private John Very sorry to hear this. These things can be annoying even though =ot serious. As you know Im not a spinal surgeon but my overall inclination is to =ean in Jeffs direction. Always get multiple opinions before surgery - =ut do so SOON. Meanwhile III ponder over it and give you feedback in the next couple 4 days. Rest assured you can be optimistic Rama GAZZANIGA RESPONSE EFTA_R1_00122654 EFTA01792081 -- He wants me to see his friend Dr. Frank Petito at Cornell. See Below From: Michael Gazzaniga Date: January 11, 2011 1:53:33 PM EST To: John Brockman Subject: Re: private John On all clinical matters involving neurologic issues I always consult Dr. =rank Petito at Cornell. He is top guy in NYC. I did review this with =nother top person here that is a good friend. He comments as follows: =ln general the standard of care in non-progressive radiculopathy with =ild or moderate clinical weakness and no pain is conservative; put off =urgery until something else gets you. An EMG is not essential if =linical signs and symptoms and radiology tests already establish the =iagnosis. If questions persist, see another neurologist at an academic =enter." So I would call Frank and tell him I am sending you. I am sure Frank =nows all the players involved and everyone agrees he is tops. Don't =now what he will say but it is a bit interesting that a neurologists =ecommends surgery. Waiting on the opinion of a top orthopedic guy and =ill get that to you. xxMike <?xml version=.0" encoding=TF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/Propertylist-1.O.dtd"> <plist version=.0"> <dict> <key>date-last-viewed</key> <integer>0</integer> <key>date-received</key> <integer>1294780371</integer> <key>flags</key> <integer>8590195713</integer> <key>gmail-label-ids</key> <array> <integer>22</integer> <integer>2</integer> </array> <key>remote-id</key> <string>127685</string> </diet> </plist> 2 EFTA_R1_00122655 EFTA01792082