It is unconscionable that doctors were performing medically unnecessary, invasive pelvic exams in patients under anesthesia without their consent. I have heard stories of women having procedures on other parts of their bodies, then waking up from anesthesia feeling pain or soreness in their vaginas and having no idea that they had been subject to several doctors taking the liberty of doing a pelvic exam. This is part of the general disregard for women in the medical industry. Glad this step is being taken, glad the NYT and other publications did reporting on this issue, because it is the equivalent of medical rape.
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