TUCSON – A woman wants a state board to hold a doctor responsible now that she cannot have children.

At 26 years old, Blaise Weatherwax went into an outpatient procedure that included a hysteroscopy and a dilation and curettage. The doctor also performed an additional operation called an endometrial ablation.

Weatherwax provided a consent form and doctor’s order that included the hysteroscopy and the D and C, but they did not include the endometrial ablation.

“The worst symptom obviously is not being able to get pregnant,” Weatherwax said, “and knowing that I will never have kids, knowing that I will never be a mom, that is absolutely devastating.”

A nurse from Weatherwax’s health plan filed a complaint with the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners. The board reviewed the complaint at a public hearing on June 17, 2017.

The doctor said Weatherwax agreed to add the additional procedure the morning of the operation.

“I had spoken to the patient in the office previously and had given her the literature,” the doctor told the board, “so it wasn’t that she was just being introduced to this on the cart.”

Weatherwax was never notified of the hearing to contradict the doctor’s story. She said she learned about it approximately one month later.

“I think that it’s important that the board review, fully investigate the complaints that they receive,” Weatherwax said, “and make sure that they get both sides.”

The board believed the doctor.

“The issue, as far as the doctor is concerned, is not that he performed a surgery without consent,” Board Vice President Jerry Landau said in the hearing. “The question is whether or not the surgery was performed without verifying/ determining that there was a proper consent form on file.”

“No,” Weatherwax said. “I would never agree to a procedure that would sterilize me ever, ever. I mean not unless I was 50 years old and had 3 kids. You know, then, maybe.”

Weatherwax requested the board review the case again. The board declined.

People who file complaints are invited to testify at the hearings, according to the board’s Interim Executive Director, Barbara Prah-Wix. But Weatherwax was not the person who filed the complaint.

Weatherwax filed a lawsuit, but she said she could not comment on the case.

“I’m still losing no matter what,” she said. “No matter what, I have lost, and I will not win. I can’t win.”

Prah-Wix declined an opportunity for an interview since there is no open or pending complaint at this time.