Medical students shouldn't be performing pelvic exams patients don't know about | Opinion

An informed consent law in Michigan would ensure that patient wellbeing remains the focus of medical practices, even when ...
The Indianapolis Star

Michigan must protect anesthetized patients from pelvic exams without consent | Opinion

When you’re under anesthesia, you shouldn’t have to worry that a medical student will perform a pelvic exam without your consent. But in Michigan, no state law forbids a medical student to perform ...
Los Angeles Times

Reckoning with UCSF’s dark history of unethical medical experiments on inmates

It’s shameful that it took decades for UC San Francisco to acknowledge and publicly apologize for faculty members who conducted unethical experiments on hundreds of men incarcerated at a medical ...
CNN

Opinion: The life-and-death history lesson that doctors aren’t learning

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...
Inside Higher Ed

Change in Medical Licensing Exam Concerns Students and Faculty

When the National Board of Medical Examiners and the Federation of State Medical Boards changed the process for grading a section of the U.S. Medical Licensing Exam, they hoped it would decrease ...
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UN report points to medical experiments, infanticide targeting disabled people in North Korea

The United Nations has expressed concern over grave human rights violations against disabled people in North Korea, including the killing of infants, forced abortions, sterilizations of women and ...