Please enlighten me.

2)even if the patient read every word it might have been written in as permission for other “miscellaneous” procedures These are not procedures necessary for the patient wellbeing, they are literally “lining up interns” (as described by one person above) to practice pelvic exams on unconscious women

Now I understand. Thank you for clarifying.

1) Basically the hospital was saying that the patients “consented” automatically by a) coming to a teaching hospital and b) signing the contract to get whatever procedure it was that they knew about. In some cases the “permission” was buried in fine print, in others it was worded so vaguely that