<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>jeffrey E. &lt;jeevacation@gmail.com&gt;</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Tuesday, October 20, 2015 9:55 AM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>John Brockman</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Re: news</td></tr></table>

of course. hope you feel better soon

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at=3:49 AM, John Brockman > > wrote:

Much better physically, and no longer our of sync in terms of=arrhythmia. But chance are very high that absent an "ablation" procedure, it will go back into aFib within a year, and I will have to keep =aking a nasty drug and even with than there's a 40% chance of going ou= of rhythm. So, next Thursday and Friday I am back at Weill-Cornell for th= procedure and tests preparing for it. And dreading it.

Sorry not to be in touch. I am finding communicating to be a chore. Chalk i= up to the cocktail of beta-blockers etc they are giving me every day. Oth=rwise, on the medical front, my eye doctor died last week and my dentist s=nt me a bill of $92,000 (total for '15: $104k)! In terms of biz, one r=ason to have children: I didn't go to Frankfurt of course (haven't=for several years) and we had one of the best weeks ever as, the day b bef=re the Book Fair, Max signed Hans Rosling, the biggest star over the years=at TED, who has never written a book. Hans's book became "the&quo=; book of the Fair and it's all anyone talked about for a week. The derls are rolling in. And I didn't even know about it a week ago and have=never meet or been in touch with Rosling.

Thanks for staying in touch.

JB
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