KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Imagine being unconscious for a surgery or undergoing a procedure and, without your consent, a doctor-in-training practices an intimate exam using your body. Pelvic and prostate ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A new batch of states ...

Medical schools and students are grappling with an unsettling practice: Performing pelvic exams on unconscious, non-consenting patients. Ashley Weitz, who received an unauthorized pelvic exam in 2007, ...

Michigan currently has no state law preventing medical students from performing pelvic exams on anesthetized patients without their consent. Surveys indicate that nonconsensual exams are common for ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new batch of states is looking to legislate the level of informed consent required for medical students to perform pelvic exams on unconscious patients for educational purposes.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new batch of states are looking to legislate the level of informed consent when it comes to medical students performing pelvic exams for educational purposes on unconscious patients ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Medical schools are performing pelvic exams on unconscious women without explicit consent, reported the Wall Street Journal. The Journal cited three recent studies published in medical ...

Pennsylvania passed a new law requiring physicians to receive patients’ verbal and written consent before allowing medical students to perform pelvic or rectal exams on someone under anesthesia, CBS ...

On 19 September 2018, Bust magazine highlighted the disturbing fact that doctors and medical students regularly, and legally, give anesthetized patients non-consensual pelvic exams. The practice was ...

When you’re under anesthesia, you shouldn’t have to worry that a medical student will perform a pelvic exam without your consent. But in Michigan, no state law forbids a medical student to perform ...