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 ...

In Tennessee, medical professionals and medical students can —without any kind of permission — stick their fingers and instruments inside a woman’s vagina and rectum while she is under anesthesia.

Using English National Cancer Registration and Linked Health Datasets to Assess Variation in Diagnostic Pathway Length for Colorectal and Lung Cancer Patients by Stage and Route to Diagnosis This is ...

HHS on Monday revised and clarified requirements for informed consent for certain procedures done in the hospital, especially examinations done while the patient is under anesthesia. "It is critically ...

In most states, it is legal for a medical student to perform a pelvic exam on a woman who is under anesthesia; Wright believes this happened to her during a surgery in 2009. Sarah Wright, a science ...

Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But ...