The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has expelled Dr. Michael Kamrava, the physician famous for transferring numerous embryos via in vitro fertilization to Nadya Suleman, who later went on to give birth to octuplets. Dr. Kamrava of the West Coast IVF Clinic in Beverly Hills, California transferred six embryos into Ms. Suleman’s uterus – it’s believed that two of those embryos split into twins, leading to the birth of eight infants. In patient younger than 35 years of age, ASRM guidelines say that only one or two embryos can be transferred to reduce the risk of multiple births. Provider tracking data apparently shows that Dr. Kamrava transferred, on average, 4.1 embryos to patients under 35. [via Medical News Today]
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Tags: ASRM, embryo, fertilization, in vitro, IVF, Michael Kamrava, Nadya Suleman, octomom, octuplet, reproduction
Dr. Steven Chang, the author of DailyDose, is a staff physician with Kosmix RightHealth. Dr. Chang practices Family Medicine at the University of California Davis Medical Center, where his medical interests include both pediatric and geriatric care, public health, gay and lesbian health, and sleep medicine. Dr. Chang trained at the Stanford University affiliated O'Connor Hospital, and was a research fellow at the National Institute of Health. He holds an M.D. from McGill University and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 am
he should be fined or even posibly lose his license. too many people in the medical feild trying to play god these days.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:31 am
If there were no complication associated with her birth then the doctor should be spared and learn something from this.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
Doctor should be held financially & ehtically accountable for the multiple births he helped create. Perhaps California law makers could take notice here. I personally feel he should lose license and pay a hefty fine,and/or jail time.
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
I wonder if Nadya paid him more money in hopes of having multiple births or was this the Dr.s way into fame and possibly more money? I too believe he should be held financially responsible for thyese children.
October 22nd, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I wear a white patients gown plastic diapers and would like to do into a nursing home as a patient georgecleg@netzero.net
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Why did he agreed to do even one implant, since she already had quite a few children? And unmarried.
I believe this was totally unethcial.
Creating another welfare family.
Wonder if the doctor was the donor?
October 22nd, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Unethical, should be financially forced to care for the entire clad of new babies he introduced to the USA, striped of all medical degrees or forced to only care for in prisoned patients not necessarily female and to live within the confines of the prison without any visitations rights with family or friends perhaps in solitaire when not serving the patients. Or he could be forced to adopt all eight children and be the total supporter of all eight of them including college. To me he has no rights whatsoever. Basically “give up ethics” to this degree and “give up rights”. Does he feel we need more children on welfare? Maybe he should only treat welfare children and allow him to learn directly the err of his ways.