It's part of a broad initiative across Mass General and its sister hospitals to incorporate professional observers — known as chaperones — into routine medical care. The Mass General Brigham ...

meaning a chaperone will automatically be provided unless a patient declines to have a chaperone present. What is a Medical Chaperone? A Medical Chaperone will be provided during a sensitive exam and ...

Read part three of our investigation. Chaperones may offer one solution to sexual abuse of patients by medical providers Some medical experts and survivors of sexual abuse say broader use of ...

A growing number of hospitals are utilizing medical chaperones as part of their efforts to bolster safety, according to a Feb. 24 report from NPR affiliate WBUR. Medical chaperones are ...

Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria’s public safety bill package passed the Assembly and now moves to the Senate. The two bills will help ...

The department — which also had been investigating Maheshwari — then should have issued an order within five days requiring a medical chaperone at his appointments while the criminal case ...

Dr. Phinit Phisitkul reached a settlement agreement with the Iowa Board of Medicine in which he agreed to be cited for sexual harassment and warned that future misconduct could result ...

A Sioux City physician accused of sexual harassment has agreed to pay a $2,500 civil penalty and submit to monitoring of his ...