Med Students Still Do Pelvic Exams on Women Under Anesthesia

(Transcription available underneath video at the link, for those who don't do video.)

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/896847?src=soc_fb_180529_mscpedt_news_mdscp_pelvicexams&faf=1

 

WTF?

I had no idea they did this!

Well, if some see this as being ok, their attitude to women with hard to diagnose conditions is hardly surprising.

I wonder if this happens in the UK too?

 

That is HORRIFYING.

My phobia for gynecological issues just reached another level.

 

Isn't that conspiracy to commit rape?

 

When I was in my twenties I was counting down from 100 right before a gyno operation.
The doctor and anesthesiologist (males) were cracking jokes about my pubic hair right as I went under....
I have long wondered with disgust what happened to me after that.
What a horrible world this can be sometimes

 

Utterly unbelievable... it's abuse. And where this still goes on the doctors think it's OK????

 

That's just it apparently, @Trish, they don't. The patient victim is completely unaware.

No respect.

 

That's awful @Allele . .

I had the heeby jeebies and everyone treated me with absolute respect.

How can they possibly expect you to have any trust of faith in them if they behave like that?

 

My feelings exactly. Doing this type of learning procedure on unconscious women without their consent is essentially treating them like test animals. It shows a complete lack of respect for their basic humanity.

Dr. Jay Goldstein observed that gynecologists (and anesthesiologists) tend to place in the lowest 20% of their graduating class in medical school. That's something to keep in mind, especially as the #MeToo movement continues to reveal that sexual abuse is far more pervasive in our society than most people ever imagined.

 

Grief that's really appalling, so sorry you had to endure that.

 

Sexual Assault. Plain and simple. They should all be in prison, every last one of them.

ETA There is no difference between this & a bunch of blokes deciding to do it to some woman passed out drunk. In fact it's worse because these woman have put their trust in these doctors.

 

I'm curious what type of doctors place in the highest 20%.

 

I suppose the answer would be to develop a rigor mortis-free cadaver for students to do pelvic exams...

 

I know, right? <shudder>

 

I might set my smartphone to record the next time I'm sedated...

 

Or just ask people if it’s ok, while they are conscious.

 

I remember this as an issue in the UK news quite some years ago, and googling turns up stuff from 2003, such as this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2642861.stm

...which indicates that the practice was against GMC guidelines even then but was still frequently being done, and yes, WTF?

I don't know what the situation is in the UK currently but I hope that the media exposure had an effect because, again, WTF?

 

Well it can't be psychiatrists.....