News story, wrong embryos

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Ghost wrote:If my suspicion is correct, we have more than an innocent mistake to deal with.
Care to share your thoughts? If not an innocent mistake, then are you implying this may have been on purpose?? Why in the heck would they do that? Or were you thinking something else?
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CT_Michele wrote:
Ghost wrote:If my suspicion is correct, we have more than an innocent mistake to deal with.
Care to share your thoughts? If not an innocent mistake, then are you implying this may have been on purpose?? Why in the heck would they do that? Or were you thinking something else?
I meant we might have an innocent mistake plus something more. That extra something would be the intent to cover up the error. That crosses the line from incompetent to unethical.

It also makes me wonder how they were going to deal with the problem of the couple having two more frozen embryos than they were told. Would they have been disposed of?

Of course, it's speculation, but I hope they check into why the couple was not notified immediately. The timing is suspect.
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I just saw that she gave birth today.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/09/25/wr ... ryo.birth/
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Still no excuse for what happened, but I just read that the embryo owners maiden name was the same as the wrongly implanted woman. I am sure that will be given as a reason for this mix-up.
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CT_Michele wrote:Still no excuse for what happened, but I just read that the embryo owners maiden name was the same as the wrongly implanted woman. I am sure that will be given as a reason for this mix-up.
I figured as much.
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I guess they had the baby... I went to a clinic in MA.... Later my sister-in-law went to the same clinic. When they went in to have the transfer they blurted out someone else's name and they had to say no, we're so & so. Then the clinic said they did have the right ones and that's what the meant.... So I wonder if it happens more than we think.
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