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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (181170)	2/2/2009 12:20:41 PM
From: John Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"This woman seems like she is mentally ill to me". "This woman" ??? Ok, whatever you said.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (181170)	2/2/2009 12:34:22 PM
From: ajtj99	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

That situation is basically medical malpractice on the part of the treating physician. Good fertility specialists believe multiples are a form of failure on their part, as it's evidence they were overly aggressive in treatment. The specialist in this instance should have their license to practice terminated, especially after the woman had just had twins.

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (181170)	2/2/2009 12:41:33 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Hard to imagine a single unemployed mother of six wasn't on welfare. Perhaps medicaid pays for in vitro too?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (181170)	2/2/2009 1:45:36 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

this is NOTHING like the cases you cited....this woman ELECTED to have either in vitro or take fertility drugs after having 6 children already....i see this as a moral and ethical failure of the medical profession I'm not arguing the morals of that woman because I think she needs help. But for the hospital, this is no different than keeping somebody alive with an artificial heart. Do you know how friggin' expensive an artificial heart transplant is- and most of those go into people OVER 50 years old. Whats ethical about that? Are we going to keep people alive until they are 200 years old one day because we can? Hospitals do this all the time. They BRING people to the USA for free surgery on all kinds of stuff and many of those surgeries are more expensive than this woman. If you are arguing COST, and purely cost which seems to be your point, she is not an outlier, not even close.