Twenty-seven U.S. states require hospitals to give unconscious patients informed consent before students perform intimate exams on them for their training. Ohio is poised to become the 28th. Across ...

The Pennsylvania state House on Wednesday unanimously approved a bill that would ban pelvic and rectal exams on patients who are under anesthesia and haven’t been told in advance and consented to the ...

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Medical schools, medical students and state legislatures are grappling with the little-discussed but sometimes common practice of performing pelvic exams for training purposes on unconscious patients ...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. - A Samaritan Hospital employee was arrested after he assaulted an unconscious patient during an exam. Mitchell Jones, 37, was performing an examination on an unconscious female ...

UPDATE: Gov. Josh Shapiro says he plans to sign the bill into law. A ban on pelvic, prostate and similar exams on unconscious patients who haven’t given permission needs only the signature of Gov.

FILE - A hospital bed is seen in a COVID-19 unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles, Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My teenager asked me the other day, ever so nonchalantly, “Mom, did you know that you can have a pelvic exam without knowing it while you are unconscious?” ...

Ellena Privitera is a medical student at the Ohio State University College of Medicine who is currently on a leave of absence as a Fulbright Research Scholar studying health literacy development in ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers sent Gov. Josh Shapiro legislation banning pelvic, prostate and similar exams on unconscious patients who haven’t given permission. The state House on Wednesday and Senate on ...

Medical schools, medical students and state legislatures are grappling with the little-discussed but sometimes common practice of performing pelvic exams for training purposes on unconscious patients ...