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Octuplets mother Nadya Suleman on Tuesday defended the fertility doctor who helped her conceive 14 children, saying in an online video he did "absolutely nothing wrong".
The California Medical Board on Monday accused Suleman's Beverly Hills fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, of gross negligence in three instances: transferring too many embryos, repeatedly transferring fresh embryos when frozen ones were available and failing to refer her for a mental health evaluation.
The board could revoke or suspend his licence.
Suleman, who already had six other children, gave birth to the world's longest-living set of octuplets on January 26. She has said she underwent the in vitro treatment that bore octuplets because she didn't want her frozen embryos to go to waste.
But the medical board alleges that Kamrava never used frozen embryos in any of her pregnancies. He could not immediately be reached on Tuesday.
Suleman refuted those allegations in the video on Tuesday saying that Kamrava told her he had transferred whatever was left of the frozen embryos.
Seeming to have second thoughts, Suleman added she may have signed papers she hadn't read.
"Maybe that was my negligence," she said.
Though Suleman has also pledged to stop having children, she seemed to joke with Radar that Kamrava losing his licence would curb her ability to have more babies.
"What am I going to do if I ever in the future want to go back?" she said with a laugh. "Really, what am I going to do?"
Suleman has said she earns money for her children through her exposure in tabloid media. It's unclear whether she received payment for RadarOnline's video on Tuesday. Queries to the editor were not immediately returned.
At one point Suleman had a secret, exclusive deal with the website to document her and her babies in exchange for an undisclosed sum. The deal became public when state labour authorities cited the website for videotaping the babies too late in the day and for too many hours.
Kamrava is also accused of giving Suleman too much of a hormone while stimulating in vitro fertilisation, poor record keeping and failing to recognise that Suleman's conduct was placing her offspring at risk.
Kamrava's lawyer said on Monday that the doctor wants to continue practising medicine.
Source: Octuplets mum defends fertility doctor - Yahoo!Xtra News