I am doing my OB rotation at northeast medical center in Gainesville and Pitocin is used a great deal there also. Every patient that I have had on L & D were induced with Pit. I also was wondering about that and the nurse that I was following told me that about 95% or so of there births were induced in some way--- eithier with Pit. or breaking the water or both. It seems to me that they just want to have the moms deliver as fast as they can and move her out for the next patient. However, if the side effects are so bad you wouldn't think that this would be done so often. Who Knows?? Bev-