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cord-011188-59hn9wsv	Bruce, Lori	A Pot Ignored Boils On: Sustained Calls for Explicit Consent of Intimate Medical Exams	2020-03-09		.txt	text/plain	8933	434	45	This paper refutes the main arguments in favor of the status quo, identifies a series of harms related to continuing the current practice, and proposes an explicit consent policy for intimate exams along with specific changes to medical school curriculum and institutional culture. Recent surveys and reports reveal that some physicians and medical students still conduct unconsented intimate exams (UIEs) on male and female patients. Patients and members of the general public are often shocked to learn that physicians and medical students may perform intimate exams on them without explicit consent and believe such exams meet the criteria for battery, malpractice, or sexual assault. Interestingly, Ubel, a physician who examined UIE practices in teaching hospitals in a 2003 survey of 401 medical students, found that completion of the obstetrics/gynecology clerkship is associated with decreased interest in informed consent (Ubel 2003) .	./cache/cord-011188-59hn9wsv.txt	./txt/cord-011188-59hn9wsv.txt