Dr. Cecil Jacobson’s spiritual progeny
Dr. Cecil Jacobson, father of a supply-side medical tradition.
Shades of Dr. Cecil Jacobson! Dr. Jacobson — relentlessly generous sperm donor, and prolific patriarch of sperm banking— was awarded the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in biology for devising a simple, single-handed method of quality control. He used his own sperm to inseminate dozens, perhaps hundreds, of his patients, none of whom knew they were getting genuine Jacobson genes.
In the Reporting on Health blog, William Heisel describes a modern, if less-accomplished counterparts of Dr. J:
Dr. Ben Ramaley, a Connecticut obstetrician-gynecologist who specialized in fertility treatments, opted to inseminate a patient with his own sperm, unbeknownst to the woman or her husband, according to a lawsuit filed by one of his patients. Ramaley has denied the accusation…. New York’s board in March 2009 forced Ramaley to give up his license, stopping short of accusing him of using his own sperm to impregnate the woman but instead saying he had used “the wrong man’s sperm.” Ramaley continues to work with an unrestricted Connecticut license.
(Thanks to investigator Ivan Oransky for bringing this to our attention.)