Letters
Please don't touch me there: the ethics of intimate examinations: Informed consent failed to protect me
BMJ 2003; 326 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.326.7402.1326 (Published 12 June 2003) Cite this as: BMJ 2003;326:1326
- Mary Selby (happyselby@btinternet.com), principal general practitioner
- Newmarket Rookery Medical Centre, Newmarket CB8 8NW
EDITOR—My personal experience of intimate examination dates back 23 years and illustrates how even explicit informed consent can fail to protect a patient.1
I was 20, a first year preclinical student, awaiting surgery for a large hiatus hernia, which had been causing supraventricular tachycardia. I was admitted to Adden-brooke's Hospital two …
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