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Utah Supreme Court Rules That Alleged Sexual Assault by a Doctor Is Not “Health Care” (www.propublica.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago (2 children)

blinks

Wut.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Welcome to the US court system

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yup. The esteemed justice system that brought you the gay panic defense and affluenza, because it's too much to expect that the actual law be honored when there's a chance to exercise cruelty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, the “he’s too rich to be responsible for his own actions” defence was wild and I hate everyone involved in it almost as much as I hate the fact that it worked.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Doctors used to perform "pelvic exams" on unconscious women all the time without their knowledge or consent. Totally legit practice back in the day.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You say that as if that practice has been abandoned

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had to look it up. Article from 2021.

https://www.healthywomen.org/your-care/pelvic-exams-unconscious-women

Fuck

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A recent survey of 101 medical students from seven American medical schools found that 92% had performed a pelvic exam on anesthetized female patients, 61% of whom reported not having explicit consent from the patients.

Double fuck

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Double fuck

Quite literally, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I was always suspicious of male OB/GYN, it seems like an unusual specialty to choose for purely altruistic reasons.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Abandoned? Definitely not. It's just not as "acceptable" these days. (Grew up with family member OB/GYN from the 1950s and was definitely the type to do that shit)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Doogie Howser M.D. got dumped for doing exactly that.