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State says doctor endangered Nadya Suleman's life October 19, 2010 | Registered: 13 years ago Posts: 7,762 |
Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor endangered her life by implanting her with a dozen embryos in the pregnancy that gave her octuplets, a state attorney said Monday.
The accusation disclosed at Dr. Michael Kamrava's licensing hearing conflicts with "Octomom" Suleman's earlier assertions that only six embryos were implanted and two split, leading to the eight children who were born in January 2009. Suleman already had six children.
Kamrava "knew that a 12-embryo transfer was unsafe and below the standard of care," state Deputy Attorney General Judith Alvarado said in opening statements at the Medical Board of California hearing.
The board could suspend or revoke Kamrava's license if it concludes that the Beverly Hills physician was negligent. The hearing is expected to take two weeks.
Suleman, a 35-year-old unemployed single mother, has said Kamrava implanted her with six embryos for each of her six pregnancies - an apparent violation of national guidelines that specify no more than two embryos for a healthy woman under 35.
The guidelines aren't hard-and-fast rules, but fertility specialists have criticized Kamrava's methods, saying he endangered Suleman's health and the long-term health of the babies. Suleman's babies, born nine weeks premature, are the world's longest-surviving set of octuplets.
Besides fertility medicine claims, Kamrava is accused of failing to refer Suleman for a mental health evaluation before giving her fertility treatments.
Before the octuplets' birth, the divorced and unemployed Suleman and her six children lived with her mother, relying on food stamps, school loans and disability payments for her two autistic children to get by.
More recently, Suleman has tried to use her notoriety for income through the tabloid media, but she struggles to pay rent and is facing a $450,000 balloon payment on her La Habra home.
Unlike Suleman, Kamrava has kept a low profile and declined repeated requests for an interview.
In July, Kamrava made a rare appearance in an ABC "Nightline" interview, defending his treatment of Suleman by saying it was "done the right way."
This article appeared on page A - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F10%2F19%2FMN9G1FUALB.DTL
The accusation disclosed at Dr. Michael Kamrava's licensing hearing conflicts with "Octomom" Suleman's earlier assertions that only six embryos were implanted and two split, leading to the eight children who were born in January 2009. Suleman already had six children.
Kamrava "knew that a 12-embryo transfer was unsafe and below the standard of care," state Deputy Attorney General Judith Alvarado said in opening statements at the Medical Board of California hearing.
The board could suspend or revoke Kamrava's license if it concludes that the Beverly Hills physician was negligent. The hearing is expected to take two weeks.
Suleman, a 35-year-old unemployed single mother, has said Kamrava implanted her with six embryos for each of her six pregnancies - an apparent violation of national guidelines that specify no more than two embryos for a healthy woman under 35.
The guidelines aren't hard-and-fast rules, but fertility specialists have criticized Kamrava's methods, saying he endangered Suleman's health and the long-term health of the babies. Suleman's babies, born nine weeks premature, are the world's longest-surviving set of octuplets.
Besides fertility medicine claims, Kamrava is accused of failing to refer Suleman for a mental health evaluation before giving her fertility treatments.
Before the octuplets' birth, the divorced and unemployed Suleman and her six children lived with her mother, relying on food stamps, school loans and disability payments for her two autistic children to get by.
More recently, Suleman has tried to use her notoriety for income through the tabloid media, but she struggles to pay rent and is facing a $450,000 balloon payment on her La Habra home.
Unlike Suleman, Kamrava has kept a low profile and declined repeated requests for an interview.
In July, Kamrava made a rare appearance in an ABC "Nightline" interview, defending his treatment of Suleman by saying it was "done the right way."
This article appeared on page A - 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F10%2F19%2FMN9G1FUALB.DTL
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