Octuplets fertility doctor at center of another multi-pregnancy

[kskiska]

The Beverly Hills doctor who helped Nadya Suleman conceive octuplets also provided fertility treatment to a 49-year-old woman who is pregnant with quadruplets and is hospitalized at County-USC Medical Center.

Several sources told The Times that Dr. Michael Kamrava transferred at least seven embryos made from younger donor eggs.

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The woman in the latest case arrived recently at Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment but was transferred last week to County-USC because she lacks insurance, the sources said. Doctors placed her on bed rest until the birth of the babies, which, they added, could be two or three months from now.

Reached by telephone, the woman, who is about five months pregnant, denied that Kamrava was her doctor. She said her doctors urged her not to talk to the media because she is already dealing with a high-risk pregnancy and doesn't need more stress.

"Please respect my privacy," she said.

The woman has three grown children from a previous marriage but wanted another child with her second husband, who is in his early 30s and doesn’t have any children. She works as an apartment manager; her husband is a contractor.

Kamrava could not be reached for comment and has declined previous interview requests. A woman who answered the phone at his West Coast IVF Clinic said, “If mother wants to bring four kids, so what?”

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[jmg257]

1. Does this guy get paid by the egg, or what??

[LostinVA]

2. Oh boy

[Barack_America]

3. All of these poor women receiving expensive IVF treatment.

Sketchy.

[TorchTheWitch]

8. very sketchy

I also read that the success rate of his clinic is WAY below par.

Something is really fishy here.

[Donnachaidh]

4. "because she lacks insurance"

Wonder how many other non-insured patients he has?

[kskiska]

5. He's been in trouble before

for pocketing the cash from uninsured patients and not paying taxes. His former office manager said that cash payments were to be given to the doctor's wife.

[AlCzervik]

6. here's the clinics website

http://www.wcivf.com/

[nc4bo]

7. He's going for a line in the Guinness World Records or proof that Ripley's fertility

statues aren't just a myth. http://www.ripleys.com/fertility/content/

:sarcasm:

My goodness gracious - I should have had myself a litter or two or three.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

9. Seven? The ethical maxmimum generally agreed on for women over 40 is 5

and that number's probably going to be brought down to 4 soon.

[Coyote_Bandit]

10. The good doctor should be made to pay child support

in some of these cases. Same result. Different method.

[rucky]

11. Police Officer Spotted at Crime Scene

isn't that what he does for a living? Fertility doc

[SoCalDem]

12. These Fertility doctors, MUST start having to provide INSURANCE

to pay for the extra costs of these "science experiments" they seem to love so much..

Two embryos should be the MAXIMUM..and if people cannot afford repeated implatations, they may just have to accept their BIBLICAL fate.. The bible mentions being "barren" many times..and perhaps ob/gyns need to foster a publicity campaign about the consequences of "waiting too long"..

[1620rock]

13. Jesus, the guy looks like Cheney in the video.