A profile of “one of the most famous plastic surgeons in history”, and the trail of lawsuits against him:
Few doctors can boast a résumé quite as impressive as Jacobs’s. After growing up in Queens and Long Island, Jacobs attended SUNY Albany and got his medical degree from McGill University. He did his residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center, where he says he’d already amassed a large patient following before setting up a private practice in 1995. With aggressive use of Internet marketing, his patient list grew worldwide by the late ’90s, and he became particularly renowned among Austrian women. He’s done work on four Playboy Playmates and countless Playboy models, who have autographed copies of their covers for him to display at his Upper East Side office. Before he sold it to cover his legal expenses, his old Porsche boasted the license plate “BUNNYMAKR.”
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Let’s get this poor man some liability protection! We’re losing plastic surgeons in rural areas because of his horrendous malpractice bills.
Kevin, please explain to us how the patients lose if we don’t.
Another waste of space at the medical schools… saline bag stuffer for the vainglorious.
Honestly, I’m not sure I’m convinced that the number of lawsuits is that mind boggling. For high profile cosmetic surgeons, anything less than perfection is liable to result in a lawsuit – it’s part of the game. Of course, if he really was smoking meth, that’s quite a different story. But cosmetic patients can be notoriously vindictive people when they don’t achieve their (often unrealistic) expectations.
I guess he grabbed the tiger by the tail one time too often.
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