A lawyer who worked on the Cartwright Inquiry into medical experiments 30 years ago is astonished women face a fight again over consenting to invasive procedures.
Several women have given accounts of lack of consent to invasive surgeries where many extra medical staff were present, many of them students.
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Several women have given RNZ firsthand accounts of being in surgery with many extra medical staff or trainees present, or being rushed into procedures with little chance to say no.
"I attempted to sit up, to look around and see who else was in the room, but the nurse or anaesthesiologist, I'm unsure who, pushed me back onto the bed, trying to put the mask onto my face," one woman told RNZ.