Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Non-labor and delivery obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) procedures are an important and necessary part of reproductive health care.However, performing a pelvic exam or procedure, which requires entry through the pelvis, is often an uncomfortable, painful, embarrassing, and anxiety-provoking experience.Given the delicate nature of these examinations and procedures, it is imperative that physicians uphold the inherent trust placed in them that derives from the patient-physician relationship.Respecting a patient's privacy-including physical, informational, decisional, and associational privacy-is a prerequisite for ensuring that a fundamental foundation of trust exists between the patient and physician.This essay explores the ethical issues physicians face during clinical practice when performing non-labor and delivery OB/GYN examinations and procedures.The American Medical Association designates this journal-based CME activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ available through the AMA Ed Hub TM .Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Source: The AMA Journal of Ethic
Authors: Amber R. Comer, Meredith Rappaport
Institution: American Medical Association
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407088510