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While You Were Sleeping: CMS Revises Guidelines on Informed Consent for Sensitive Examinations
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Mary Paterni and Hala Mouzaffar
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It has been a longstanding practice within Hospitals across the U.S. for medical students and other practitioners-in-training to perform pelvic and other sensitive examinations on patients, most of whom are under anesthesia, without their explicit consent. Join Hala and Mary as they discuss the growing movement to better police this practice and how, as a result of mounting public scrutiny, it has caught the attention of CMS.