Law And Order And Ethics
The attached article from The New York Times website of February 28 describes a truly horrifying course of events. Apparently, at least three fertility doctors in the Rochester, New York area used their own sperm to impregnate their patients, when different anonymous donors were supposed to have been used. As shocking as this is, it was the basis of a widely-viewed Law and Order episode called “Seed” from 1995. This current fertility fraud was discovered by one of the off-spring through DNA testing when he found his biological father was not who he thought he was and in fact he had over 10 half siblings all of whose mothers had the same fertility doctor.
If you want to know why the public does not trust doctors and why I was always so skeptical as a vice president overseeing clinical research of what I was being told, this is it.