PALM SPRINGS, Calif., May 1, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The direction and evolution of life's passages are often presented as a general plan, and the degree of success is usually related to timing and the ability to step through the opening as it presents itself. On the professional side of this recount, the author was able through fortune and talent to advance through the most exciting period in medical development. Diagnostic medical imaging has exploded into medical necessity to the great advantage of patients and physicians. Dr. Jacobs has been blessed to be on the pioneering forefront of the evolution of diagnostic medical imaging.
Concomitant with his professional career, Bruce Jacobs has followed the same philosophy in evolving through avocations, stepping from one fabulous adventure to another by progressing through a passage until it reached a point of diminishing returns. There were decisions required relative to the cost-benefit ratio, and he often found that this avocation envelope had been pushed as much as possible, so a new interest was developed.
About the Author
J. Bruce Jacobs, MD, matriculated through UCLA Medical School, internship, and residency, followed by a two-year fellowship in neuroradiology at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda. Returning to Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, he was medical director for the first LA Interventional Angiography Consultation, then the second LA CT head scanner, then the second LA CT body scanner, then the third LA MRI scanner, and then returning to his Palm Springs heritage, opened two CT MRI facilities followed by one of the first nonuniversity PET scanners. He is currently medical director for two DESERT CT MRI facilities, the CT scanner at the Comprehensive Cancer Center and for two PET scanners in the desert. He is medical director for two national corporations and lectures regularly to the medical staff in Puerto Vallarta.
Bruce has had equally extraordinary avocation pursuits: a love affair with daily drivers led to a world class 1963 Corvette collection whch evolved into a stable of big-block unlimited race cars that he raced for seventeen years, world class collections of 19th century Hudson River Luminist paintings, followed by Southwest Indian pottery, baskets, Curtis, Navajo wall hangings and Monongye jewelery collections. A period of introspection caused him to build and sail his INTEGRITY through a two year one-third circumnavigation before being invited to open a Beverly Hills Diagnostic Imaging Center. Karen and Bruce have travelled Europe enough and now are in their fourth year of monthly visitation to the Puerto Vallarta Marina.
What A Ride * by J. Bruce Jacobs, MD
Recount of Extraordinary Life Passages
Publication Date: December 30, 2008
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