Medical Malpractice

North Carolina, like other states, has statutes of limitations that restrict how long a plaintiff has to bring a civil lawsuit for various types of wrongdoing. The statute of limitations for medical malpractice suits is typically three years. In March, the North...

Cerebral palsy is a condition that sometimes affects newborn babies, and it can be linked to mistakes made during the delivery. If the child isn't able to get proper oxygen, for instance, that can cause brain damage, cerebral palsy and other issues, even if the lack...

The first stool that a newborn baby passes is meconium. Usually, babies do not defecate until after birth, but sometimes they can pass meconium while still inside the womb. This can be especially dangerous because an infant can inhale the substance into the lungs,...

Based on the name, you would assume that never events are, quite simply, events that never happen. And in the medical community, this is certainly what the term means. It refers specifically to things that take place even though there is never an occasion in which...

Doctor burnout, also often called physician burnout, is a situation in which a doctor just feels stressed, overwhelmed and fatigued by their job. It often comes after working long hours with very little rest. This is hard in any industry, but it's especially hard in...

Effective solutions to any problem require that the problem be correctly identified. When doctors miss a diagnosis or misdiagnose patients, the treatments they prescribe may work poorly, not at all or even make the problem worse. What is the difference between a...

Medical malpractice arises when a health care provider fails to act or acts in a way that deviates from the profession's standards. Malpractice usually involves a medical error in either stage of treatment: diagnosis, medication dosage, treatment, health management or...

It’s understandable that a person could misread a medication's label and take the wrong dose at the incorrect time. You might also get how a patient would accidentally treat their symptoms with the wrong medication. You likely expect a bit more attention to detail...

When you check into a medical facility, you trust your healthcare provider to give you the medical attention you need. Unfortunately, things do not always go as planned. If you sustain an injury as a result of the healthcare provider’s negligence, you may be eligible...

Stanford Law school has reviewed 37 different studies on malpractice from 1990 to 2019 to find ways to deter medical malpractice. They found three reasons that medical malpractice continues to happen despite current efforts to deter it. The findings of the study are...