Are breast and pelvic exams necessary when prescribing hormonal contraception?

Education Director, Primary Care Women’s Health, Cleveland Clinic; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Cleveland, OH

Director, The University of Texas Medical Branch Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health; Ruth Hartgraves Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology; Professor, Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston