Octomom Doctor's Medical License Revoked: Right Prescription?

I don't really like the idea of Invitro-fertilization. It's not natural and there's plenty of children out there to adopt who need a loving family! Instead this mess happens and taxpayers have to foot the bill for all of Octomom's children because she can't afford to feed all of 8? Yea.
There are endless reasons why invitro is bad....

Off to working in shady back alleys with him lol

what took so long?

Extremely irresponsible and evil to do something like that!! He lacks compassion and concern when it comes to people!

It should have been revoked two years ago. The world is overpopulated as it is.

He's a doctor, he should have known better.

Should've happened a long time ago

It's about time.

He violated professional ethics. Sometimes patients need to be told "no."

My wife and I had to use IVF to have our son. We put 2 embryos in, because we were fine with having twins (we want 2 children). One took, so we now have a 3 year old, and we've just done another IVF cycle and put only one embryo in this time. Our doctor has said he will not put in more than 2, as their goal is a singleton birth each time. To put in more than 2 risks the life of the mother and the children, and therefore is an ethical violation.

Should have happened a long time ago.

honestly im shocked it took this long

She must have asked for, and presumably paid for the procedure, so he was doing his job. providing a service.

as for using multiple embryos, that's standard procedure, thte regularly use more then that, and none, err, what's the word? spawn...

if she couldn't afford to look after them, it's her own fault. you wouldn't expect a spermarket to not sell you meat, because you might not have a fridge to keep it in.

This pathetic man thinks he's above the norms of society, so he does as he see's fit according to his own logic, which is the same as Hitlers was, a superiority complex thinking he was better than 99% of humans.
These kind of people will never change their logic, they always think society is wrong, and they are right. He should be simply put to death for societies bennifit, because everything he does from now on will be to punish society that has wronged him, so his logic thinks.
People like him are why the world is in cahos, because they don't get along with others thinking they are all better than every one else.

It took to long, I think the kids are in the first grade by now!

If he let Octomom create a hell on earth for eight children what else has he done?

He should also be paying child support on all 8 kids. Octomom is desperate for cash (big surprise), as the result of medical malpractice.

Let the idiot doctor eat the cost of the special needs kids over the course of their lifetimes. The rest of the docs will smarten up fast. NOTHING would bring an end to this practice faster than a seven-figure payout in a malpractice suit. It would stop faster than you can say "malpractice insurance rate hike".

What he did was highly unethical to the standards set by the medical board. Is this strictly his first incident or have there been other dings on his license? If this was a first time thing, I think suspended would have been more appropriate. I mean, should a doctor be inquiring into his patients life to see if she can 'afford' the kids he's helping create? I don't think so, but implanting so many eggs at one time was highly out of line..

And as punishment he should be forced to live with Octomom and all her offspring.

I meant to say YES-dang. It's about time they revoked his license.

He shoud be allowed to treat farm animals. He could end world wide hunger.

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!

I thought this happened a long time ago .... better late than never i guess

Why should he be practicing? Right Prescription.... agree...bark

But did he go to evil medical school for six years for nothing?

using 8 embryos wasn't malpractice. they normally use quite a lot, as most usually don't stick. as for doing it to a woman with no income? she paid for the procedure, and doctors provide a service. would you expect a supermarket not to sell someone meat because they might not own a fridge?

Most fertility doctors will NOT implant eight embryos into a woman's womb. The number usually is much smaller. Also, having a litter of eight kids is NOT something female human bodies were meant to do. The Octomom already had six children, all very young, with whom she was having a hard time coping. Just because she was able to pony up enough cash to have the procedure done [I do believe this nut job of a doctor gave her a "discount"] does NOT make it okay. Your analogy, comparing Octomom's breeding habits to buying meat from a supermarket, isn't a fair comparison. People purchasing a side of beef may not have a refrigerator, but that's none of our business. When this doctor's actions result in a brood of children that the mother cannot support and the father is unknown, and taxpayers are funding her entitlement benefits, it IS our business. And buying a large pot roast while not owning a fridge isn't quite the same thing as having eight beautiful babies who will have God-only-knows-what kind of life with a mother ill-equipped, both mentally and financially, to raise them. I pray for those poor children.

pray if you will, but you seem to have taken my point out of context.
you are correct in that fewer are normally used. here in the UK, it's usually 2-3, and that has quite a low success rate for getting even one success. (about 35%, statistically, she should have had twins.)
as for my supermarket nanalogy, i also agree that it's not perfectly fitting. you could for example, consume the meat as soon as you got home, i imagine if you did that with a child, it would make national headlines. but to my knowledge there's no requirement for background checks for IVF, and similar treatments. for adoption, yes they do, but that's because it's done through some weird organisations...

I do get what you're trying to say. Sure, people should be permitted to do what they want with their lives, and if a woman has enough money to pay a fertility doctor's fee to have eight embryos implanted in her womb, then I suppose we could look at this as freedom of choice. However, having the cash to pay for a procedure and then having to deal with the aftermath are two entirely different things. Octomom is a terrible example of motherhood, and she shouldn't have had even her six original children. Even her parents have criticized her for her irresponsibility, and at one point, she had considered making a porn movie to help take care of her brood.

If I may put forth an analogy of my own... Just because Michael Jackson had enough money to hire his own personal physician doesn't mean that his doctor should have prescribed enough narcotics to eventually kill him. Just because one CAN do something doesn't necessarily mean that one SHOULD. Octomom's doctor is accountable for his actions, and the Hippocratic Oath requires that he first does no harm. Her being able to afford in vitro fertilization doesn't make it RIGHT.

Thanks for pointing out that if people consumed their CHILD as soon as they got home, it would make the headlines! That was FUNNY AS HELL!

i take it you disapprove of my sense of humour. it's accepted in Hamsters, why not people?
Let's use your example. Michael Jackson could afford his own personal physician, and chose to employ one, but i highly doubt he asked, or paid, him to provide a lethal dose of the narcotics.
With the average 35% success rate per embryo, the chance of 'octomom' being harmed by the IVF are negligible, that's an expected 2.8 children. and, of course, with each successive attachment, the next is less likely to hold, so they shouldn't have expected more than twins.
his actions are justifiable.

(on a side note, if you want something really crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?... )

hmm, my apologies, i assumed you were being sarcastic. i shall trust you that you weren't.
And if you like that, try Phils other shows. it's usually just mondays, wednesdays, and fridays, but is usually quite entertaining.
i used 'usually' too much there... to close together, doesn't feel right.

thank you, and thanks for the add.

"Do no harm" is the key element. It could have cost her life.

Thanks for getting my point. Not only could giving birth to eight babies be harmful to the mother, in such a situation where all the embryos "took," Octomom could have decided to undergo selective abortion. Some pregnant women who find themselves carrying too many fetuses will abort a few of them to make the remaining ones viable outside the womb. As I said, female human beings were not meant to have litters of children. Thanks for your comments, and have a great day!

You too!

And he should support the children...he made them...he should support them not any welfare.