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Who’s job is it to protect us from ourselves?

Submitted by Angie Sat 02/07/2009
Can you stand one more perspective on the octuplets? While the news of mom of 14 kids hurls fertility treatment to the wolves for everyone and their mother to opine on, if one more doctor insists the answer lies in educating the patient, I may not be responsible for my actions. The truth is simple: fertility docs know better.

Here's a paragraph from the blog of Dr. Samuel Wood in San Diego, in which he candidly spells out what many fertility patients know and often keep hidden from their 'fertile' friends:

Virtually every physician has been asked to prescribe medications or perform procedures that are clearly not in a patient’s best interests or are outside acceptable medical practice. Frankly, it's routine in our practice. A significant percentage of those undergoing treatment through IVF request that we transfer an inappropriately large number of embryos, because they want to "make sure" they get pregnant, and because they have previously failed so many time on their own. Their concern is not multiple pregnancy, but becoming pregnant at all. It is the physician’s responsibility to provide a patient with only those treatment options that fall within the standard of care for the condition they are treating. Under such circumstances, even obtaining “informed consent” from the patient does not eliminate or even diminish the physician's responsibility.


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