A doctor reportedly was inducing labor in pregnant women without their consent — seriously endangering mothers' and babies' lives — in order to bill more for the deliveries
North York Hospital, where Dr. Shuen worked for nearly 30 years. Photo: Vince Talotta/Toronto Star via Getty Images Paul Shuen was one of Toronto’s most highly esteemed surgeons and OB/GYNs, until nurses at the North York General hospital where he worked discovered that he had been inducing labor in pregnant women without their consent — seriously endangering mothers’ and babies’ lives — in order to bill more for the deliveries, Toronto Life reports.
In order to maximize profit on those 45, however, he reportedly induced his pregnant patients without their knowledge so that they would deliver on weekends, when the hospital was generally short-staffed, and Shuen could charge more for his work . Officials later found that from 2015 to 2016, an astounding 46 percent of Shuen’s deliveries took place on weekends.
Similar pills had been found in Shuen’s patients in 2013 and 2015. He had also crossed other lines of consent before. In 2008, one of his patient’s, who was induced early because her amniotic fluid was low, said Shuen was impatient with how slow her delivery was going, and performed an episiotomy on her without her knowledge or consent. She ended up with a third-degree tear of the perineum, and had to have surgery months later to repair the extensive damage.
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