MOSES LAKE, Wash. - A Samaritan Hospital employee was arrested after he assaulted an unconscious patient during an exam. Mitchell Jones, 37, was performing an examination on an unconscious female ...

Twenty-seven U.S. states require hospitals to give unconscious patients informed consent before students perform intimate exams on them for their training. Ohio is poised to become the 28th. Across ...

Lawmakers want to require informed patient consent for some medical procedures. A bill moving through the legislature would ...

Very serious charges are being made that some Australian and UK medical students conduct intimate body exams on unconscious patients without consent. From the story: AUSTRALIAN medical students are ...

FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. — A former paramedic in Flagler County was found guilty of sexually abusing an unconscious patient. James Melady was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually abusing an unconscious ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... My teenager asked me the other day, ever so nonchalantly, “Mom, did you know that you can have a pelvic exam without knowing it while you are unconscious?” ...

UPDATE: Gov. Josh Shapiro says he plans to sign the bill into law. A ban on pelvic, prostate and similar exams on unconscious patients who haven’t given permission needs only the signature of Gov.

The Philadelphia-area woman woke up from anesthesia with the feeling someone had probed her pelvic area. She couldn’t get answers from the hospital. But another doctor eventually told her it’s ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KDVR) — A nurse working for a hospital in Grand Junction has been arrested on charges of sexual assault against unconscious patients who were in his care at the medical center.