An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. I was surprised to learn this was still going on today. I ...

A medical ethicist is urging all teaching hospitals to abandon the tradition of allowing medical students to perform practice pelvic exams on unresponsive, sedated women who have not given consent to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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East End Surgical, a surgical practice with offices on the North and South Forks, has joined Stony Brook Medicine Community Medical Group. The addition of the practice helps Stony Brook Medicine ...