Drugging Pregnant Women to Induce Labor and Make More Money
The song "Working for the Weekend" by the group Loverboy is one of theirs. The goal is to work all week in order to enjoy the weekend. Self-explanatory, I think. It is the complete antithesis of the life that obstetrician Paul Shuen was leading. All Shuen had to do to make a significant profit from his astonishing scheme was to coerce women into having babies on the weekend, regardless of whether it was the right time for them to do so.
Shuen worked in Canada, where the government is in charge of making sure doctors are paid. A weekday delivery on the basis of the wage structure brings in roughly $498. Although hospitals frequently have fewer employees on weekends, a weekend birth cost $748. The number of deliveries a doctor can perform in a month is also limited. Shuen then devised a scheme.
Without their knowledge or agreement, he gave his patients a medication called misoprostol. He did it to try to guarantee weekend births whenever possible. It's utilized to induce labor. In 2016, five separate women all arrived that day in a hurry. When nurses started discovering signs of the medication inside of patients, he was caught off guard. Shuen had been practicing this for years before his license was finally suspended, but the technique was cumbersome.
