Octuplet Doctor
Octuplet Doctor
Carrying multiple embryos to term can be dangerous to a mother's health.
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" Doctor Michael come -- spoke with channel four news nine years ago demonstrating -- in vitro fertilization technique considered pioneering at the time. There. Now nearly a decade later notoriety of a different sort. Is reportedly the fertility specialist -- Nadia in my consultant who she says in my editor with their first six children and her latest eight. Yeah. So -- decision to carry out templates to her as an unemployed single mother generated plenty of controversy. A point raised in her interview with NBC's and her. You're at least some -- that you already and yes. And now it's the doctors turn to answers and ethical question. First and foremost by California's medical board which has launched an investigation into whether their standards of care were violated. Physicians are strongly advised not to recommend more than two embryos slated at that time were somewhat silly months eight. He says at her request doctor come -- like implanted at least six. And these. A gamble fraught with physical dangers abound at. Possible -- for her a ruptured uterus herbal palsy or developmental issues for the infant. So they've -- says come Bravo warned her that she insisted on carrying all the embryo term can leave it. The question is what do doctors aware of a patient's family background. Where is his responsibility toward her health begin and end when she's determined to have as many children as possible. Our calls to doctor come Robert were not returned and no receptionist was on duty during a visit to his Beverly Hills office this afternoon. Gordon took about two channel forty."
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