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Teaching hospitals are being called into question over their consent procedures to conduct pelvic exams on anesthetized patients.
But a new grassroots advocacy organization is contending that the preoperational consent forms given to patients in teaching hospitals don't explicitly state that a medical resident or student may conduct a pelvic exam while a patient is unconscious.
Instead, the forms use broader terms, such as "services will be performed by individuals selected," or "patients may be visited and attended by students or residents of various disciplines," Gabrielle Lichterman, executive director of the New York-based People Against Non-Consensual Pelvic Exams, or Non-Con, told this newspaper. Non-Con was formed this year to stop the practice of nonconsensual pelvic exams on anesthesized patients.
The wording does not make it clear that a student or resident may be conducting a pelvic exam, she said. Non-Con's research indicates that only a handful of the 400...
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