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The demand for health care is on the rise. As more people seek medical treatment, North Carolina's hospitals will only become busier. Already, the medical community is seeing the impacts of expanding the duties of physicians. Hospital doctors are being given larger...
Doctors undergo years of training in order to make sound decisions based on their medical observations. Yet when medical professionals don't exercise enough caution, they can overlook critical details and lifelong consequences can follow. Many North Carolina families...
It's likely that everyone in North Carolina has somehow been impacted by a cancer diagnosis, whether it was their own or that of a loved one. Understanding how difficult it is to hear news about cancer, it's almost unimaginable how challenging it must be to find out...
In an era when health care costs are skyrocketing, it's no surprise that consumers, employers and insurers groups are looking for creative ways to cut back on expenses. Although more affordable health care is certainly welcomed by many, North Carolina residents should...
Anyone in North Carolina who has received a cancer diagnosis knows how scary and confusing the experience can be. As many women are concerned about the threat of breast cancer, it's not uncommon for many to go through regular mammograms and receive treatment in accord...
When someone is admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital, they assume that they are in good hands. While their injuries are often very severe, one would believe that healing could begin in the unit. One meta-analysis by researchers with Johns Hopkins...
Just hours after receiving a benign medical diagnosis, no parent wants to hear that their child is actually dying. A doctor's failure to diagnose sepsis, a blood infection, led to a young boy's tragic death. Now, the boy's loved ones are seeking answers -- and...
The only thing that could make a kidney tumor diagnosis more difficult to handle is the knowledge that it should have been identified two years earlier. This was one North Carolina man's experience. Though he was able to have the tumor removed, medical records...
Receiving a cancer diagnosis is almost always a terrifying experience for North Carolina residents and their loved ones. The journey through treatment is often long, painful and draining. It seems hard to imagine going through a radical cancer treatment, only to find...
One bad judgment call can leave an entire family completely devastated. This is what happened to one woman and her family after there was a failure to diagnose a hemorrhagic stroke. Unfortunately, the doctor diagnosed the woman with a migraine and she was left...