巴菲特笑对前列腺癌

    上周应该是沃伦•巴菲特一生中最不寻常的一周，但他仍像照常打理着自己的生意，仿佛这一周再平常不过。

    巴菲特日前宣布，他上周二接受了活检，上周三被确诊患有一期前列腺癌。上周四，他做了CAT扫描和骨扫描，结果显示，癌细胞并未扩散到身体其他部位。

    就在接受检查的同一天，巴菲特还在奥马哈市一家名为J. Coco's的新餐厅，与另一位巴菲特——知名艺人吉米•巴菲特共同用餐。吉米•巴菲特于两天后在该市举办了一场演出。

    周五，老巴菲特又接待了160名商务专业大学生，这些学生分别来自麻省理工学院（MIT）、芝加哥大学（University of Chicago）、田纳西大学（University of Tennessee），以及秘鲁的太平洋大学（Universidad del Pacifico）。常规参观（本学年共有六次参观安排）结束后，学生们又参观了伯克希尔旗下的两家零售子公司，与巴菲特进行了两个半小时的互动，中午在巴菲特最钟爱的餐厅Piccolo's用餐。

    当时有一段小插曲——吉米•巴菲特也来到Piccolo's用餐，并引发了一场小小的骚动。

    第二天晚上，吉米在Century Link会议中心演出开始之际，最先上台的是沃伦•巴菲特，他一本正经地说“欢迎参加伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司（Berkshire Hathaway）年会”。当伯克希尔公司年会在此举办时，沃伦•巴菲特也会这样问候来宾们。唯一不同的是，伯克希尔公司年会通常都是人满为患，相比只能站在台下观看吉米•巴菲特演出的热情观众，伯克希尔公司年会的人数要多很多。

    周日，巴菲特休息。周一上午7:30，他与医生见面，讨论癌症的治疗方案。

    然而在上午9点，刚刚结束会诊的他又出现在一个商务会议上。下午，他又拍摄了一段视频短剧。这段视频将作为一部影片的一部分，在5月5日召开的伯克希尔公司年会上播放。

    当天晚上，他参加了为基金会经理参观代表团举行的盛大晚宴。所以周一他并没有像往常一样和铁杆牌友们在线切磋桥牌牌技。他的四位牌友分别来自洛杉矶、哈里森、纽约，还有一位便是我。其实不用玩牌，我反而松了口气，因为我需要静下心来写这篇文章。

    本文作者、《财富》杂志（FORTUNE）资深自由撰稿人卡罗尔•卢米斯是沃伦•巴菲特多年的好友，一直是伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司的股东，并负责起草巴菲特每年的“致股东信”。

    译者：阿龙/汪皓

    Last week was the most extraordinary week in Warren Buffett's history – but he lived his business life as if this was the most normal time in the world.

    As Buffett announced today, he was diagnosed with Stage I prostate cancer last Wednesday, after a biopsy the previous day. On Thursday he had a CAT scan and bone scan, with these showing that the cancer had not spread elsewhere in his body.

    On that same Thursday, he and a small group had dinner with his non-cousin, entertainer Jimmy Buffett, at a new Omaha restaurant called J. Coco's. Jimmy was in town for a performance two days later.

    The following day – Friday – Buffett, the elder, was host to 160 business students from such universities as MIT, University of Chicago, University of Tennessee, and Peru's Universidad del Pacifico. Following the usual routine for such visits (there are six scheduled for this school year) the students toured two Berkshire retail subsidiaries, held a two-and-a-half hour Q&A session with Buffett, and lunched at one of his favorite restaurants, Piccolo's.

    The riff at Piccolo's was that Jimmy Buffett turned up for lunch, creating an instant sensation.

    At Jimmy's performance the next night at Century/Link Center, the first person on stage was Warren Buffett, who deadpanned a "Welcome to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting." Actually, the only thing dissonant about his greeting was that the Berkshire meeting, which is held at that same Center, spreads out to overflow rooms and actually draws many more people than the standing-room-only (and wildly enthusiastic) crowd that Jimmy Buffett attracted.

    On Sunday Buffett caught his breath. Then, on Monday morning at 7:30 AM, he met with his doctors to discuss courses of treatment for his newly discovered illness.

    But he jumped from that consultation into a business meeting at 9 AM. And in the afternoon he was videoed for a skit that will be a part of a movie shown at Berkshire's (BRKA) annual meeting on May 5th.

    That night, because he had a big dinner with a visiting delegation of foundation presidents, he did not play online bridge with his usual Monday foursome, which includes a player from Los Angeles, one from Harrison, New York, and me. One person very relieved about not playing was yours truly, who needed time to collect her wits and write this article.

    FORTUNE senior editor-at-large Carol Loomis is a longtime friend of Warren Buffett's, a longtime Berkshire Hathaway shareholder as well, and editor of Buffett's annual shareholders' letter.