Now I have been involved during medical school with a lot of them. Every one of them I saw, it was a very miserable experience for the woman. Basically, the body is not ready for birth, but you give various drugs to force the body to give birth.
These inductions are done when there is some risk to either the mother or baby. A big cause for an early induction is pre-eclampsia which can be a life threatening condition and is treated with early induction.
For inductions you have to have careful monitoring of the baby and mother because you may need to convert to an emergency c-section.
Because of all this, it is not unreasonable for the scheduled induction to be taken first.
I don’t want to discount your experience here, but it seems unlikely to me that what happened followed ordinary medical prioritization.
It’s tricky to relay over a short internet comment the full experience and context - for example, hearing the phone calls the couple made to family/hospital, the full conversation the nurse had with us about priority, or the missing detail that my wife had pre-eclampsia. I guess we don’t know with 100% certainty, but having been in the situation, I’d say there is a 98+% chance that the status/wealth of the couple directly influenced how soon they were given a bed.
(Sorry to add facts after the original comment; I wanted to avoid writing something too lengthy but I can see how these details may have been necessary).
Now I have been involved during medical school with a lot of them. Every one of them I saw, it was a very miserable experience for the woman. Basically, the body is not ready for birth, but you give various drugs to force the body to give birth.
These inductions are done when there is some risk to either the mother or baby. A big cause for an early induction is pre-eclampsia which can be a life threatening condition and is treated with early induction.
For inductions you have to have careful monitoring of the baby and mother because you may need to convert to an emergency c-section.
Because of all this, it is not unreasonable for the scheduled induction to be taken first.