Therehave been multiple studies and statistics gathered regarding the high numbers of preventable medical errors. The issue has become so prevalent, that preventable medical errors are now considered the third leading cause of death in this country, following only heart disease and cancer. Some of the more common – and often deadly – preventable errors…
When you consider all the sophisticated and technological medical equipment available for treatment today, receiving a blood transfusion seems pretty routine. In fact, more than 4.5 million people receive blood transfusions in the U.S. every year. However, many of those patients would likely be alarmed to learn of the number of blood transfusion errors that…
Minnesota’s Supreme Court recently handed down a decision that makes it the twenty-third state to adopt “Loss of Chance” medical malpractice lawsuits.The “Loss of Chance” or “Lost Chance Doctrine” differs from standard medical malpractice lawsuits in that it allows a patient to sue if a doctor’s negligence brought an increased rate of mortality or otherwise-decreased…
Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be one of the most frightening things a woman can hear in her lifetime. But as North Carolina medical malpractice lawyers we know that even worse is to not be diagnosed or to have a wrong diagnosis when you really do have cancer. Below is a real story from…
When many people envision how they will die, very few imagine it will be at the hands of a doctor. However in North Carolina that is the case for many victims of medical malpractice. A psychiatrist and professor at Duke University recently wrote this about medical malpractice: “I have a friend who has lung cancer…