I don't know about this particular doctor, but I worked for a surgeon and every procedure even for a cyst removal requires a consent form. Whether the patient chooses to read it or not is up to the patient. Most of the patients that I dealt with didn't read the consent forms. Most likely the consent form covers the doctor for any "negligence".
From what I understand with this type of procedure they place a number of embryos because often times they don't implant and continue to grow. The cost of these procedures, that are often not covered by insurance, cause the patient wanting to get pregnant as a result. So, the doctors implant more than one embryo.
The article also stated that she was on fertility treatments which can cause multiple births by itself. It's possible that embryos were implanted and due to the fertility treatments she ovulated multiple eggs which were also fertilized which in combination led to the 8 babies. A combination of very rare circumstances that can happen.
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From what I understand with this type of procedure they place a number of embryos because often times they don't implant and continue to grow. The cost of these procedures, that are often not covered by insurance, cause the patient wanting to get pregnant as a result. So, the doctors implant more than one embryo.
The article also stated that she was on fertility treatments which can cause multiple births by itself. It's possible that embryos were implanted and due to the fertility treatments she ovulated multiple eggs which were also fertilized which in combination led to the 8 babies. A combination of very rare circumstances that can happen.