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Residents of North Carolina depend on their doctors to make correct diagnoses when they have an ailment and seek treatment. However, a new study shows that doctors make an incorrect diagnosis 10 to 15 percent of the time. Interestingly, many doctors are missing common...
North Carolina residents anticipating surgery might not be aware of a painful error that occurs at varying rates in the nation's hospitals. During some procedures, sponges, retractors, needles and other surgical tools are left inside patients on the operating table....
North Carolina moms who are considering having a laser liposuction procedure might want to rethink their decision after they hear about how one mother's procedure turned out. A 26-year-old mother from the Bronx ended up severely scarred and deformed after the OB/GYN...
North Carolina hospitals may join the ranks of facilities offering robot-assisted surgery, but one doctor in Colorado stood accused of promoting the futuristic option to the exclusion of other, possibly safer, methods. Medical malpractice suits could arise from the 10...
North Carolina readers may be interested to know that a study at Vanderbilt University seems to indicate that long-term stays in the ICU can cause a loss of cognitive function that can last for up to a year after a patient's release. The results of the study, which...
North Carolina patients may have noticed that some hospitals have made some major investments recently. The lobbies may be nicer, or they may even feature nail salons and flat-screen televisions. The one thing that hospitals are not making major investments in,...
As patients in North Carolina know, medical errors are sadly common in hospitals around the country. Researchers conducting studies on medical errors hope to shed light on how many deaths are the result of medical errors every year. Over the years, different methods...
North Carolina residents may have heard about a 49-year-old former Marine who went to a veterans' medical facility in 2007 to have some teeth extracted and was left permanently incapacitated. He and his family received $17.5 million in a medical malpractice judgment,...
Many North Carolina residents may have already heard about the medical malpractice case that occurred recently in Ohio involving a mistakenly discarded donor organ. A family has initiated a lawsuit against the University of Toledo Medical Center claiming that hospital...
North Carolina residents might be interested in a case occurring in a Kentucky court involving a man who was misdiagnosed with HIV back in 2004. The 43-year-old veteran had been taking up to 15 powerful drugs as prescribed by his doctors. Additionally, he had been...