You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Some medical schools instruct students to practice pelvic exams on female patients who are under ...
Pelvic exams play a pivotal role in medical education, often representing the first time medical students touch real humans in a professional manner. In her new book “Feeling Medicine,” published by ...
EXAMS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF WOMEN’S HEALTH, BUT WHEN SHOULD THEY BEGIN? WE ASK MERCY MEDICAL CENTER DOCTOR TARA CHADWICK. IT SORT OF DEPENDS ON WHETHER YOU’RE HAVING AN ISSUE OR IF IT’S JUST A ...
Anyone who has ever had been screened for cervical cancer, aka gotten a Pap smear, during a pelvic exam knows how uncomfortable it can be — and the speculum plays a key role in that. The ...
Every year millions of women trek to their gynecologist or other healthcare provider and reluctantly climb into the stirrups. Though no one particularly likes a pelvic exam, most women put up with the ...
The invasive duck-billed metal device has been the bane of routine checkups for 180 years. It’s time to reinvent the pelvic exam. The present-day pelvic exam, born through the graceless adequacy of a ...
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 ...
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