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They came to Dr. Cecil Jacobson's Vienna, Va., clinic from all over the Washington area, women and men desperate to conceive a child. As a fertility specialist, Jacobson was highly recommended. He was a brilliant geneticist who helped pioneer the amniocentesis procedure in the U.S. During office visits he liked to call himself "the babymaker." "God doesn't give you babies," he would tell his patients...
...extraordinary charges cap several years of civil proceedings against the 55-year-old physician, who first came to the attention of authorities after what seemed to be an unusual string of false pregnancies. According to the government, Jacobson was giving patients hormone treatments that simulated the effects of early pregnancy. At hearings before a committee of the Virginia Board of Medicine in 1989, several women wept as they described how Jacobson would show them sonograms of what he said was their fetus, pointing out nonexistent heartbeats, fetal movements and thumb-sucking. He would give them fetal snapshots to take home...
...Virginia board found sufficient evidence to warrant revoking Jacobson's medical license, despite pleadings by his attorney that the board was paying too much attention to the complaints of "disappointed women who had difficulty conceiving" and ignoring "the other side of the coin," the fact that he had treated a lot of other women who did get pregnant. Jacobson agreed to give up his practice and moved to Provo, Utah, where his father lives...
Other reviewers, such as Film Comment's Harlan Jacobson, have pointed out numerous liberties that Moore takes with time and facts. The number of 1986 GM layoffs in Flint, for example, was about 5,000, not the 30,000 implied in the film. The company contends that many employees simply retired or accepted voluntary terminations or transfers to GM jobs elsewhere. Three huge commercial projects, which the city mistakenly hoped would revive prosperity, opened and failed before the 1986 layoffs, though Moore hints that they came partly as a response to GM's cuts. Says Flint Mayor Matthew S. Collier...
...past six months, but Scullys are trading on the secondary market as high as $350,000, and Saatchi recently unloaded a block of nine of them on the Swedish dealer Bo Alveryd, who last month spent $70 million at three London galleries (Marlborough, Waddington and Bernard Jacobson) before moving on to the New York fall auctions. There he underbid the $20.68 million De Kooning and bought, among other things, a Johns for $12.1 million. "I thought Saatchi had good intentions," Scully says. "Now it turns out that he's only a superdealer. These guys create price levels for themselves. They...