Dying to Have a Baby: A True Story

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The clock was once ticking. Suzanne Matteo was once 37 years old and she wanted to have a baby. An obstetrician/gynecologist herself, she knew that, biologically, time was once running out. Satirically, she and her husband Tony, also an OB/GYN, had delivered thousands of babies for other women but were having no luck of their own. So they sought the assistance of a world-renowned fertility doctor, Jerome Check, M.D., and determined to go ahead with in-vitro fertilization. The procedure, regarded as radical when introduced in 1978, had develop into routine and now helped millions of women have babies.

But along the way, things went flawed for Suzanne, terribly flawed. After an egg retrieval procedure she developed a slow and, to start with, imperceptible bleed from her ovaries. With Tony at his hospital doing rounds and Check not responding to a nurse s calls, Suzanne s condition worsened. By the point Tony returned, she was once unconscious and her belly distended, filled with blood.

Tony acted. With the assistance of several nurses and staffers at Check s office, he carried his wife to his car and sped off to his own hospital. He rushed Suzanne to the operating room and performed surgery on his own wife, hoping that he could save her life.

Years later, the matter would end up in court, with Check facing a civil lawsuit for malpractice. Check, in turn, would go to the authorities claiming that it was once Tony, not him, who was once responsible for the harm done to Suzanne, and that it was once intentional. Tony, he asserted, had tried to murder his wife. The district attorney, Bruce Castor, consulted with his top homicide detective before coming to a decision: Let s see what the outcome of the lawsuit is before we come to a decision what we re going to do.

Dying to Have a Baby is the story of that lawsuit.


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