Octomom doctor could still lose medical license

California’s medical board has rejected a judge’s recommendation that the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who assisted Nadya Suleman in conceiving octuplets be allowed to keep his medical license.

Last month, Administrative Law Judge Daniel Juarez recommended that the board place Dr. Michael Kamrava on five years’ probation rather than revoke his license.

On Wednesday, the Medical Board of California rejected Juarez’s recommendation, according to an order signed by board member Shelton Duruisseau.

A panel of board members now plans to consider Kamrava’s case before deciding whether to revoke his license, according to the order. The panel will reconsider evidence, transcripts and written arguments. Both sides have 20 days to request oral arguments before the panel.

The panel could consider the case as soon as the medical board’s next scheduled meeting May 5 in Los Angeles, according to board spokeswoman Jennifer Simoes.

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.

Suleman was 21 when she first sought Kamrava’s care. He continued to treat her for more than a decade, helping her conceive all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization.

During administrative hearings last year, testimony about the octuplets’ conception established that Kamrava used 16 of Suleman’s eggs to create 14 embryos, then implanted a dozen on July 19, 2008.

The babies were born nine weeks premature and remain the world’s longest-living group of octuplets.

Judge Juarez found that Kamrava committed gross and repeated negligence by implanting Suleman with an excessive number of embryos in January and July 2008. The January implantation did not result in a pregnancy.

The judge also found that Kamrava was negligent in his care of the two other patients and that in the case of the woman with ovarian cancer he failed to keep adequate records.

However, Juarez was not convinced that Kamrava was negligent in his treatment of Suleman from 2002 to 2007, or incompetent in his treatment of all three patients, arguments made by Deputy Atty. Gen. Judith Alvarado at the administrative hearings.

Juarez wrote that he was not persuaded that Kamrava was “a maverick or deviant physician, oblivious to standards of care in IVF” and that the doctor “succeeded in presenting a defense to the majority of the allegations” against him.

Instead of revoking his license, the judge recommended that Kamrava complete an ethics course and continue to practice under the supervision of another doctor or a physician’s training course.

The judge said he found it unlikely that Kamrava would continue to implant excessive embryos, given the publicity surrounding Suleman’s case.

Octomom Dr. Michael Kamrava Implanted 12 Embryos Not 6

Octomom’s doctor, Dr. Michael Kamrava was in hearings today regarding his medical license.  There has also been some new information released that changes the 6 implanted embryos to 12!  The intial allegations has everyone in shock as it was believed that the 6 embryos implanted was inappropriate, but 12 could be even further over the edge. Deputy Attorney General Judith Alvarado made the allegations in the opening statements was quick to point out this is why Dr. Michael Kamrava doesn’t serve to have a license. The agruments are the first of many for the hearing.

Nadya is still working on saving her house as she explained on the radio the other day.

Octomom Doctor Michael Kamrava

Octomom Doctor Michael Kamrava

Octomom Sells Bikinis and Bras to Support Her Kids

octomom-yard-sale-bikiniOctomom Nadya Suleman is considering holding a yard sale and online auction at her Madonna Lane home in La Habra Saturday morning, selling items like the bikini she wore on the cover of tabloid magazines and an autographed nursing bra.Suleman, who faces foreclosure if she can’t meet a balloon mortgage payment of 450,000 dollars on Oct. 9, will use money to raise her 14 children.

Radio personality Tattoo, the man the media initially thought might be the father of the octuplets, with the Rick Dee’s morning Internet Top 40 show Tattoo and Crew, is helping hold the sale.

When asked if he indeed was the father, Tattoo said he would never answer that question.

“I have to do my dues to take care of these kids, that’s all,” the Orange County Register quoted him as saying.

“I truly love and care for Nadya and the babies,” he said.

One of the items up for auction tomorrow will be “the boxers Tattoo was wearing when he found out the amazing news that Nadya was having 8 babies.”

The garage sale begins at 10 a.m. and will last “until the babies go to sleep,” Tattoo said.

“We’re going to be barbecuing for everyone,” he added.

Suleman and the kids will be there and pose for photos with people.

“Everybody’s gonna get a picture with Nadya.

“It’s a family day, not a day to focus on the mistakes Nadya made.

“I grew up in a home very poor in East LA with a single mother of four. I know what it’s like to eat beans and tortillas every day. All I’m doing is trying to raise money for these kids,” he said.

The auction will be streamed live on UStream. TV, with Tattoo giving a play by play of the items up for auction.

Some of the items up for grabs will be the sofa Nadya was sitting on when she found out she was pregnant with octuplets, handprints of the children, “autographed pregnancy panties” and “numerous Octo toys,” some autographed. (ANI)