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Patients trust healthcare professionals, such as doctors and nurses, with their very lives. That is why a health care professional must perform their job diligently and competently with a due regard to patient safety. Unfortunately, medical malpractice is all too...
Greenville residents may have heard of a new system of reporting medical errors implemented at a large clinic in North Carolina. This new procedure for flagging medical errors has resulted in a significant jump in the number of reported doctor errorms as well as other...
Medical malpractice can cause incalculable damage to victims and their families. A recent survey of neurosurgeons found that nearly half who specialize in spinal procedure have performed the doctor error of wrong-site surgery at least once during their career. Pitt...
A visit to the local pharmacy should never result in injury because a person was given the wrong medication. Most Greenville residents would agree with that assumption. Yet, that seems to be what happened to a Salisbury woman. While cases of doctor error hit the media...
Doctors, particularly therapists such as psychiatrists, hold tremendous sway over their patients in Pitt County and throughout the state. Often, individuals reveal their innermost thoughts and feelings in these settings. Due to the highly charged personal nature of...
Medical malpractice and doctor errors are issues everyone is concerned with these days. Individuals depend on their health care professionals to heal, not harm. But how can Pitt County residents tell if a particular hospital is up to snuff or not? Is there a reliable...
In Pitt County there is often cause for a malpractice or a wrongful death suit when a life is lost at the hands of someone's negligence. However, it is rare to see the relatives of a convicted murderer file a medical malpractice suit related to the murders. A...
Residents of Pitt County may be interested in a recent California incident that calls into focus the issue of hospital malpractice. An employment dispute has been brewing for some time between Alta Bates Summit Medical Center and its nursing staff. The frustrated...
Medical malpractice suits in Pitt County as well as other parts of the state are not uncommon. Doctors and hospitals sometimes make a mistake which cause injury to their patient or at times even causes their death. In a recent medical malpractice case in McDowell...
"I became very ill. They hospitalized me and after two weeks they came to the conclusion that I had celiac [disease]," explained a Pitt County woman. She is one of the fortunate ones, because about 3 million Americans suffer from celiac disease but are unaware of it...