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Not every health problem means a doctor made a mistake. An unexpected medical result can leave you confused and worried. Understanding the difference between an unfortunate outcome and medical negligence can help you decide whether you may have a legal claim. Medical...
North Carolina imposes a special filing rule in medical malpractice cases. Before filing suit, the person bringing the case generally needs a qualified reviewer to examine the care in question and support the allegation that the provider fell below the required...
When you sustain an injury due to a healthcare provider’s negligence, the “statute of limitations” is a critical factor. This important concept is a legal deadline that dictates the amount of time you have to file a lawsuit. North Carolina’s stated limits are...
Illness and injury affect everybody from time to time, and a full recovery – even with medical attention – is not guaranteed. A poor outcome, however, is not proof of medical malpractice. Four things must be true for you to have grounds to claim medical malpractice...
Doctors and nurses will make mistakes from time to time. Most of those do not result in a patient suffering serious harm, but a percentage of them do. Some of these that are particularly shocking are known in the medical profession as never events. A never event is...
An emergency room or emergency department can be a chaotic environment. It is often complex, crowded and stressful. Doctors have to make quick decisions based on very little observation of a patient. For instance, if someone's family brings them to the emergency room...
Sepsis is usually explained as something the body does to itself. Sepsis is a severe, life-threatening reaction to an otherwise ordinary infection, usually driven by a hyper-reactive immune system response. Sometimes, it really is nobody’s fault – but that is not...
You went to your doctor with pain. You told them something was wrong, and for months your doctors dismissed your concerns as nothing serious. Now you are facing an ovarian cancer diagnosis that could have looked very different if someone had listened sooner. If a...
Learning that your child has a congenital condition can bring many questions. One of the hardest is whether medical providers failed to tell you something during pregnancy or after birth. In some cases, parents may have legal grounds to take action if important...
Technology has done a lot to improve the efficiency of medical care, but it can also have its downsides. If you have ever found your attention pulled away from a conversation by a notification ping or lost your train of thought to an open tab on your computer, other...