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Gynecological exam policy changing.
2003 APR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Some of the nation's leading medical schools have abandoned a little-known, decades-old practice of letting students perform pelvic exams on women without their consent while they are under anesthesia.
The schools are asking permission first.
Previously, these institutions had routinely brought in students - sometimes as many as three or four - to conduct pelvic exams on unconscious women just before their gynecological surgeries and often without their consent.
Changes in that practice have taken place over the past 5 years after complaints from students who felt the exams without consent were unethical.
"My problem was that if they found out about it, they might be really upset, and it was really only being done for my benefit," said Dr. Ari Silver-Isenstadt, who refused to examine anesthetized women as a student at the University of Pennsylvania.
"I felt like I would be violating their trust," he said.
Students also raised objections in the mid-1990s at Harvard Medical School.
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