'Octomom' Nadya Suleman’s fertility doctor might lose license
A panel of California medical board members will meet Thursday morning to reconsider the case against the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who assisted Nadya Suleman in conceiving octuplets.
The board has already rejected a judge's recommendation that Dr. Michael Kamrave be allowed to keep his medical license, suggesting that they are considering harsher penalties.
Kamrava has been accused of gross negligence and incompetence in his treatment of Suleman, 35, of La Habra, and two other female patients: a 48-year-old who suffered complications after she became pregnant with quadruplets and a 42-year-old diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer after receiving fertility treatments.
Administrative Law Judge Daniel Juarez had recommended that the medical board place Kamrava on five years' probation rather than revoke his license.
The board rejected that finding.
The panel will hear oral arguments from the California attorney general's office and Kamrava's attorney. Any decisions will be first delivered in writing to Kamrava before it is made public.
Kamrava treated Suleman for more than a decade, helping her conceive all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, including the octuplets, who were born nine weeks premature in January 2009.
Juarez found that Kamrava committed gross and repeated negligence by implanting Suleman with an excessive number of embryos and that he also was negligent in his care of the two other patients. But Juarez also found that Kamrava successfully refuted the majority of the allegations against him and was unlikely to repeat his mistakes.
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-- Rong-Gong Lin II
Photo: Fertility doctor Michael Kamrava appears before the state medical doard during a hearing in Los Angeles on Oct. 18. Credit: Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times
EDITOR'S PICKS:
This is silly...taking this guys lively-hood...He should just be required to pay child support for those 8 kids...only until they're 18...
That would send the biggest message to other similar clown so called doctors...
Posted by: TheBigPicture | May 05, 2011 at 07:19 AM
Good! He should be permanently band from medicine. This man has no regard for the health problems he causes when he experimented on these women!
He shouldn't be allowed to cross-pollinate plants, let alone treat women!
Posted by: Astonished | May 05, 2011 at 07:27 AM
Make the 'duck' PAY for all 14 of her kids! Every cent, of every need, thru grad school! Amazing the judge, wants to turn the other cheek, yet again....'quacks' sit on the bench, too!
Posted by: Robert NO longer in LA | May 05, 2011 at 07:34 AM
I have an idea for the board, let his punishment be paying for all those kids he created with Suleman!
Posted by: JohnnyMo | May 05, 2011 at 07:34 AM
Perhaps a compromise might be to allow him to keep his license but to saddle him with the financial burden for the outcome he has caused.
Posted by: Kaonashi | May 05, 2011 at 07:51 AM
Why doesn't the County Of Los Angeles sue him for child support?
Posted by: CalifKirk | May 05, 2011 at 08:02 AM
Here's a plan; since he did it, MAKE him marry her and support her and the kids, END OF STORY!
Posted by: Bubba | May 05, 2011 at 08:03 AM
No, no, what they should do is to allow him to keep his license but make him financially responsible for all those kids, just like if he was the biological father. Let him work, he'll need the money to support this new, extended family of his.
Posted by: Adrian | May 05, 2011 at 08:03 AM
Take his license away. He clearly was in it for the money, as no competent physician would have implanted any embryos into Nadya Suleman when she already had a half dozen kids she could not take care of. The fact that his incompetence resulted in her having 8 more babies is just the icing on the cake.
Posted by: Tyrone | May 05, 2011 at 08:17 AM
He SHOULD lose the license! It was grossly unprofessional.
This misguided woman, in her quest for fame, has ruined not only her life, but most probably the lives of ALL of those children.
And WE are going to end up paying for them! (Unless the market for Angelina Jolie look-alikes unexpectedly explodes).
Posted by: John from the Westside | May 05, 2011 at 08:48 AM
Good. Remind doctors about ethics. They've forgotten.
Posted by: Seeder | May 05, 2011 at 08:56 AM
Is this news?
Posted by: Brian | May 05, 2011 at 09:34 AM
If this doctor does not lose his license what good is the medical board? If this is not a valid case for a reason why a doctor should lose his license I dont know what is.
Posted by: awareness | May 05, 2011 at 10:13 AM
Saddest of all, is not that we have to pay for this stunt, is that the children have to personally pay for it. Anyone that's seen the damage already caused by the nut case in the form of eight little zombie babies at the age of two, knows that they are paying the real cost.
Posted by: Jenna | May 05, 2011 at 11:30 AM