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Five year old girl was left “traumatised” and in pain after physician assistant wrongly prescribed vaginal pessary

bmj · 2026-06-08 · canonical JSON source

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A 5 year old girl in England was left bleeding, traumatised, and screaming with pain after a physician associate (PA; now known as a physician assistant) wrongly prescribed a pessary to treat itching and vaginal discharge, an investigation by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman has found.1