Medicine: Too Much of a Good Thing? <

Smiling wanly, Patti Frustaci stood proudly outside Childrens Hospital in Orange County, Calif., holding tiny Stephen Earl in her arms. After nearly 20 weeks in intensive care, the last of her three surviving septuplets was finally on his way home. But last week, only four days after that seemingly happy occasion, Patti and her husband Sam filed a $3.25 million malpractice suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court against both the clinic and the physician who administered the fertility drugs responsible for the conception of Stephen Earl and his six siblings. Said Patti: "Life will never be what it was before...