WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.—Fox Varian, the woman at the center of a gender-related malpractice suit, testified on Jan. 27 that she was “desperate and terrified” at age 16 when she sought the breast removal surgery approved by the two doctors she’s currently suing.
Although she asked for the procedure, she had been suffering from a host of mental issues that she said providers failed to adequately address.
“I don’t think that [responsibility] really falls squarely on my shoulders,” Varian told the court. “It falls on the shoulders of the adults that were supposed to guide me.”
As her civil suit against her health care providers enters its third week, jurors have to decide whether to hold the providers liable for malpractice….