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Phoebe Friesen was working with medical students in New York when one approached her with an ethical dilemma. As part of his training, he’d been asked to perform pelvic exams on women who had been anesthetized for other procedures.
The student had complied but was troubled by what he deemed a violation of an unconscious woman's body, as was Friesen.
“I was really shocked when I first encountered this, and pretty horrified, to be honest,” said Friesen, now a postdoctoral fellow in ethics at the University of Oxford who published a paper on the practice in 2018.
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