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- Re:Recommendations Against Routine Pelvic Examinations: Could they have a negative effect on physician competence and women's health?Show More
The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) strongly recommends against routine pelvic examination screening among asymptomatic women for non cervical cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, or other gynecological conditions.(1) These recommendations are based on moderate quality evidence that there would not be benefit to women from pelvic screening examinations.(2) Indeed the Prostate Lung Colorectal and Ova...
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DS Jones et al stated that researchers and doctors should not harm patients, and should work with patients to help the individual patient, not patients in general. (1) In 2016 the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care (CTFPHC) recommended not performing pelvic exams in asymptomatic women. R Ladouceur proposes that discontinuing routine pelvic exams "could have a negative effect on physician competence, and by ex...
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As a woman myself, with all the particular body parts pertinent to Dr. Ladouceur's commentary on the utility of the female pelvic exams, I was dismayed by the message conveyed by this article.
In as much as physicians do need to continue to practice physical exam manoeuvres in order maintain certain competencies, I was astonished that Dr. Ladouceur would raise an alarm over competency in this particular context,...
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