Journal of the American Medical Women's Association (1972)
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J Am Med Womens Assoc · Jan 2003
ReviewUnauthorized practice: teaching pelvic examination on women under anesthesia.
Medical ethics evolved over the past half-century. This brought close reexamination and scrutiny of medical education and the "hands-on training" of future medical practitioners. ⋯ Law professor Robin Fretwell Wilson, Esq., and obstetrics and gynecology professor Nancy G. Chescheir, MD, present evidence and opinions from the legal and medical perspectives regarding conducting pelvic exams on anesthetized women without or with vague consent.
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J Am Med Womens Assoc · Jan 2003
Women's perspectives on intimate partner violence services: the hope in Pandora's box.
To explore women's perspectives about how to enhance services for those who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) and how to improve the links between such services and the health care setting. ⋯ We found a striking lack of support among women participants in our study for using the health care setting as part of the service response to IPV. Participants believed that the health care system is not set up to allow providers to provide the level of individual assistance that they thought would be most useful. Participants did have hope that women's risk of future IPV would decrease if they were provided with useful community-based services and if community-wide prevention efforts were implemented.
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As the proportion of women physicians in the United States increases, patients have increased access to physicians of either sex, and some patients express a clear preference for female providers. This is especially true in obstetrics/gynecology, where patients may have a variety of reasons for requesting female physicians. This column presents a case in which the patient not only expressed a preference for a female physician, but also, in fact, refused care from any male obstetrician/gynecologist. Possible responses to such a request are examined, with consideration of the competing priorities involved.