How do you find out if your fertility doctor is your donor?
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Anonymous
| How can we know how often this happens, unbeknownst to you? |
Anonymous
| What?!!? |
Anonymous
| That would be insanely unethical. |
Anonymous
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Recently news organization reported that Google Donald Cline (US), Norman Barwin (Canada), Jan Karbaat (Netherlands), all fertility doctors who used their own sperm instead of that of donor or even sometimes, paying client.
While reading those news I thought luckily my RE and I are of different ethnicity, so I think I am safe. It's a crazy thought. |
Anonymous
| My RE just so handsome and intelligent. Just sayin |
Anonymous
| I think this was more common back in the day when fertility doctors often had college students or grad students providing fresh samples in the office which was then used in procedures. Now, you order sperm online from a cryobank, it's delivered to the clinic, and at most clinics there are multiple nurses or assistants involved in the procedure along with the doctor. So one person is bringing the sample from the office freezer to the exam room, someone is making sure that it thaws properly, a nurse will double check with you before the procedure that the donor number on the sample is the same as the donor you chose, and then the doc comes in and does the procedure. It would be really complicated in that situation for a doc to sub in his own sperm somehow. I don't think this is something you need to worry about. |
Anonymous
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A DNA test is one way.
And it used to be a bit more accepted practice. One woman who this happened to (her father was not her dad, the doctor was) wrote a memoir about it: https://danishapiro.com/books/inheritance/ |
Anonymous
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Are these unscrupulous physicians punished in any way?
Is it even illegal? |
Anonymous
If you received a bio of the donor and the bio and genetics of the resulting child don't match, but the genetics of the resulting child matches the RE, then yes, it is fraud and medical malpractice both of which are liable to get the doctor's board certification to practice medicine revoked. At least, in the US. Not sure about other countries. Here's a case similar to that and the RE did lose his medical license. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fertility-fraud-people-conceived-through-errors-misdeeds-in-the-industry-are-pressing-for-justice/2018/11/22/02550ab0-c81d-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?noredirect=on |
Anonymous
Doc wasn't her dad. It was a donor. |
Anonymous
You’re confused. |
Anonymous
| This happened to a friend of mine. She got one of those DNA test kits. When she got her results and was able to see relatives she discovered she had nearly a dozen half siblings. Her parents eventually admitted to having to use a sperm donor to have her. They were embarrassed and didn't intend to ever tell her. The doctor was using his sperm. It was a fairly well publicized news story in the midwest. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
She was raised with a father she was not related to. Her bio dad was the fertility doctor (or grad student?). This was done with her parents consent though. It was a mixing of the sperm samples and used to be done regularly. |
Anonymous
| Creepy. |