She didn’t want a pelvic exam. She received one anyway.

Janine, a nurse in Arizona, checked into the hospital for stomach surgery in 2017. Before the procedure, she told her physician that she did not want medical students to be directly involved. But after the operation, Janine said, as the anesthesia wore off, a resident came by to inform her that she had gotten her period; the resident had noticed while conducting a pelvic exam.“What pelvic exam?” Janine, 33, asked. Distressed, she tried to piece together what had happened while she wa