A jury sided with two doctors accused of failing to obtain informed consent before performing multiple surgeries on a patient. In 2005, Helen Hale, then 54, underwent a series of surgeries performed by Dr. Peter Lotze and Dr. Kimberly Miller-Miles at The Women's Hospital of Texas in Houston. Hale claimed the procedures reduced the size of her vaginal opening and the length of her vaginal canal to the point where she experiences constant pain and intercourse is unbearable. She contended Lotze and Miller-Miles never told her the procedures could reduce her vaginal opening. The doctors argued that Hale was aware of this possibility before she consented to the surgeries. They also contended that while the procedures did shrink Hale's vaginal opening, it remains within the normal range of vaginal size.
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