It's a fairly obvious thing to happen though:
Open a big new state-of-the-art hospital for dealing with high-risk situations.
All the scared people want to have their low-risk pregnancies cared for at the big hospital "to be safe".
The hospital is over-subscribed by people without need. Overworked doctors end up treating everyone as high risk because there's no time for case-by-case reviews of women's situations. The hospital becomes dangerous for low risk women AND high risk women.
If people realised that hospital is for high-risk people and that the best way "to be safe" is to get APPROPRIATE care, rather than over-blown unnecessary care, these things would happen less.
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