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That unusually broad experience led officials at the National Institutes of Health to pick Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many...
To alternative healers, the effort is welcome news. "While a few worry that it's a plan to trap and discredit them, most look at this as a chance to be vindicated after years of being called lunatics," says Jacobs. The medical community has been cooler. Though the office's...
With an M.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton, Jacobs is a bona fide member of the Establishment. At the same time, his heritage has given him an outsider's perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada...
Among his most piercing memories is watching his fellow Boy Scouts being inducted into the Order of the Arrow. "There I was, the only real Indian, and they were dancing around the campfire in loincloths," he recalls. "It was both ironic and offensive." To fit in, Jacobs largely rejected his...
Jacobs is already spending his weeks at the NIH campus. With a staff that includes a pharmacist, an immunologist and a psychologist, he is crafting standards for the 10 two-year research projects the office plans to fund at $100,000 each. Jacobs expects to steer clear of alternative therapies...