FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Thursday, March 20, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-03-20

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DIARY ENTRY — Thursday, March 20, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 338–340 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Received horrible news tonight at around 9:30 PM from Howard
Boltansky who called my cell phone. My dear friend and physician for 16 years, David
Jacobs died suddenly in Las Vegas today where he was with his brother to watch the
NCAA Tournament (March Madness). David had shown me an MRI of his abdomen.
About 6 years ago he was struck by a car while running his daily run down by the Mall.
He got badly bruised up, but there was no concussion and so other ‘apparent” injuries
exception getting banged up badly. About 6 months later on a routine medical
examination and MRI, they found a major tear the length of the aorta with clotted blood
stably keeping everything in place. Amazingly, his renal vessels and femoral arteries
were being perfused, but the tear and clot was extensive. Clearly, this happened at the
time of the accident. He had gone to several vascular surgical consultants who told him
that this was not repairable and that if they attempted to repair it, he had a very high
likelihood of dying on the OR table. They told him that he could live 30 years or he
could die suddenly at any time. No way to predict and so he has lived with this hanging
over him. In my conversations with his, he was always in good spirits and seemed to
accept the risk. Unfortunately, this has happened. I am terribly saddened. I loved
David and he took such good care of me. I had trained him when he was an NIAID

Was on WTOP for the NYC measles outbreak.