Lunch Break: Octomom’s fertility doctor to lose license
by LauraLoo
From People, June 1:
California will yank the medical license of the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who implanted 12 embryos into “Octomom” Nadya Suleman 3 years ago. Dr. Michael Kamrava will lose his license effective July 1, said the state Medical Board, in a decision more severe than an administrative law judge’s recommendation that Kamrava get probation for 5 years.
At a hearing last year, Kamrava apologized for implanting the embryos into Suleman instead of referring the 33-yr-old unemployed single mother of 6 to a mental-health evaluation.
The Board found that Kamrava “did not exercise sound judgment” in treating Suleman and 2 other patients – a 48-yr-old who had complications after becoming pregnant with quadruplets and a 42-yr-old who contracted ovarian cancer after fertility treatments.
The Board found that Kamrava “committed gross negligence, repeated negligent acts and incompetence.”
Kamrava’s attorneys had argued that Suleman could have terminated some of the fetuses, that the negative publicity surrounding the Octomom case is a sufficient deterrent, and that Kamrava had learned his lesson.
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Choice is only good, when it’s the choice we want you to choose.
Now he can work at an abortion clinic!
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I’m having trouble with the problem here, this doctor showed a blatant disregard to both standards of practice and the health and welfare of his patients. Wanting 8 kids is fine (I want more than that!) Wanting to be pregnant with 8 kids (or more! They implanted 12 babies) at one time shows either A) complete lack of understanding of the risks involved or B) mental instability. Either way as a doctor sworn to ‘do no harm’ this was *not* good medicine. Now I find it ironic that they are actually getting him in trouble for implanting 12 babies that resulted in 8 birth certificates when I highly doubt he would have gotten in like trouble for implanting 12 babies that resulted in 2 birth certificates. His crime is ultimately the same, but if he’d been able to talk his patient into ‘selective abortion’ he likely would have gotten away with it! Just another point where abortion is used to hide a multitude of sins.
“The Board found that Kamrava ‘committed gross negligence, repeated negligent acts and incompetence.’ ”
It’s called “GREED.”
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Jespren, you are exactly right.
Gerard Nadal says:
“The Board found that Kamrava ‘committed gross negligence, repeated negligent acts and incompetence.’ ”
It’s called “GREED.”
Gerard,
Also add to the list ‘incompetence’, ‘malfeasance’.
I’m not sure of her mental state but I did find it interesting and not surprising the amount of venom directed towards her. I think that had she been aborting babies instead of giving them life her mental state would not have been an issue.
What in the heck did she do to her lips? Fruitcake…
Myrtle,
The under-appreciated aspect of this story is Nadya’s desire to rescue all of her children from the cryopreservation tank, which led to her having had so many implanted at once. I do think that mental illness is at play in the background, much as a bass guitar is in a band.
However, the issue of not wanting babies left in the deep freeze calls to mind the larger issue in IVF, which is the entirely sick and immoral technology altogether, where parents have had dozens of eggs harvested (like so many chicken eggs) and fertilized at once. They then consent to the embryos being winnowed for keepers (they are actually graded) and the rest of their less-than-perfect offspring discarded like so much rubbish. Finally, the bulk are stored indefinitely like frozen peas. Like the peas, many succumb to freezer burn.
I actually applaud Nadya’s desire to rescue all of her babies from the deep freeze. That virtuous instinct would have been obviated had she not treated her babies like objects of possession at the outset, to be disposed of at whim. That virtuous instinct could have been honorably fulfilled by permitting embryo adoption for those babies, instead of the ghastly implantation of a dozen at once.
It is that implantation of a dozen, on top of her slight regard for those sorted out and discarded, and the freezing of any remainders that detract from her maternal instinct at rescue, and suggest that a mentality of the ‘baby as property’, to be disposed of at whim, has been consistent throughout.
So, in one sense, she had been aborting all along; first by allowing several of her offspring to be sorted and discarded, and then by subjecting most of the survivors to being frozen at -321 degrees F, where approximately half succumb to freezer burn, or death in dethawing.
The same mentality that allows for abortions not coerced is the same mentality that permits the abuses intrinsic to IVF: Children are property.
That’s mental illness in my book.
Dr. Nadal
Whatever her mental state though I believe the outcry had little to do with her as a human being. I’m not sure how to explain this so I’ll just try it’s really a hypothesis I have and it’s just based on observation. I think the far left is actually intimidated by the motherly instinct and when this woman had the audacity to bring eight children into the world they could not deal with her audacity. There are codes of behavior and she was definitely out of compliance. Having said that I had no idea that some of the embryos were frozen having not really paid attention except to the amount of grief she was being subjected to by the media. Maybe she had a sense of remorse and because of this took action. I’m sure whatever decisions she made were made with forethought. I haven’t seen many pictures of her or her children but those I have seen she looks happy and her children look well taken care of. So if she is mentally ill and that is indeed the sound of a bass guitar in the background I hope she knows that she’s done more in spite of her challenges than a lot of people do without issues. I wish her and her children well. And I would think or at least hope that at some point, if she hasn’t already, she’ll have a better sense of the wonder of all life.