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North Carolina (NC) state law enforcement officials on August 9, 2010, handed down nearly three dozen indictments against a former nursing home nurse for charges ranging from patient abuse to second-degree murder. The currently jailed nurse is accused of administering overdoses of morphine and other painkilling opiates to patients at Brithaven of Chapel Hill in…
In his latest post to our firm’s VA & NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys Blog, my colleague Jim Lewis applauds a jury verdict in favor of a woman who had part of one leg and most of another foot amputated after her doctors failed to promptly diagnosis a potentially fatal blood infection called sepsis. Jim…
In her latest post to our firm’s VA & NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys Blog, my colleague Emily Mapp Brannon shares her thoughts on a jury verdict against a South Carolina rehabilitation hospital. She notes that evidence in the case indicated a paralyzed patient developed bedsores — one “the size of a saucer plate” —…
In his latest post to VA & NC Medical Surgery Malpractice Attorneys Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro applauds a Winchester, Virginia (VA), jury for recognizing how a surgeon’s negligence harmed a woman who had gone into the hospital for a supposedly routine hysterectomy. Rick notes that patients suffer greatly when surgeons make mistakes. EJL