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You're probably here because you're looking for a medical malpractice attorney or seeking information about surgical errors, doctor mistakes and/or medical negligence. Take a moment to review this page and then give our office a call to discuss your situation.

Thank you for taking a moment to review our web site medical malpractice/surgical error law advice page. Our goal is to provide you with detailed information regarding doctor mistakes, nursing home abuse, and hospital negligence in North Carolina (NC) including Moyock, Elizabeth City, Ahoskie, Manteo, Nags Head, Edenton, Kinston, Greenville, Rocky Mount, the Outer Banks (OBX), and the Albemarle area. Medical mistakes can happen to patients anywhere, including folks in Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Chapel Hill, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville, Wilmington, Cary, High Point, Asheville, Gastonia, Jacksonville, and Concord. No matter where it happened, our lawyers will come to you, if your family suffered a preventable death or serious injury caused by a health care provider,across NC and South Carolina (SC)  in places like Florence, Charleston, Columbia, Greenwood, Greenville, and Spartanburg.  We are here to help. We handle many medical malpractice lawsuits daily and will work tirelessly on your behalf.

Please take a moment to review our in-depth library articles on surgical errors, birth injuries, etc., our video library on hospital negligence, dangerous prescription medications, and results of medical malpractice cases we've handled. 

Our medical malpractice attorneys have authored two special free reports in this area of law. (1) Top Ten Tips from an Experienced Medical Malpractice Lawyers (2) Surgeries Gone Wrong: The Top 5 Surgical Errors and How Not to Become a Victim

After you've had a chance to review this information, please consider giving our firm a call at 1-800-752-0042 so you can have a confidential intitial consultation with an actual lawyer for free. Or, take a moment to fill out our quick contact form on the right side of this page and we'll give you a call ASAP.
 
Rest assured, the information we provide here is based on decades of legal experience. We understand the complexities of medical malpractice law and are ready to put that knowledge to work for you.

We've handled numerous cases involving...

• Surgical errors - This includes anesthesia mistakes, improper sterilization, technical errors, nerve damage, unnecessary surgery, surgery on the wrong part of the body, foreign objects left in the body, and organ puncture.

• Wrong diagnosis and misdiagnosis - This includes misread x-rays, misread test results, failure to order common diagnostic tests, and ignored or missed symptoms. Commonly missed diagnoses include heart attacks, cancer, hypertension, clogged arteries, and infections.

• Negligent care - This includes the improper use of restraints, the improper administration of medication or wrong medication, hospital abuse, or lack of sufficient staff.

• Birth injury - These incidents happen during the baby’s delivery or shortly afterward. These injuries due to hospital errors may involve cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, or brain damage. The mistake may be the obstetrician's, nurses' or other treater in the maternity ward, but the common feature of these claims is the permanent, catastrophic injury to the mother or baby.

We Also Handle Nursing Home Abuse And Nursing Home Neglect Cases

When we place our loved ones into an adult care or elder care facility, we do so with the utmost love and respect, and with the assumption that they will receive sufficient care, attention, and medical support. Yet, according to CBS News, nursing home abuse is on the rise and roughly 30% of adult care facilities have been cited for abuse incidents. 

Nursing home abuse can take many forms, including elder physical abuse, elder emotional abuse, elder neglect, elder verbal abuse, and elder sexual abuse. Some nursing home residents may be improperly restrained, some might be given the wrong medications or over medicated, some may suffer from bedsores, infections, and unclean environments, and some may suffer daily emotional abuse from staff members.

These abuses can lead to poor quality of life, medical issues, mental issues, depression, infections, slips and falls, broken bones, and even death.

Here are the most common signs of elder neglect and abuse:

• Bruises, cuts, frozen joints, sudden weight loss or bedsores on the body.
• Soiled sheets, insects, or other signs of neglect.
• The nurse or attendant does not leave the room when you visit.
• You are sometimes unable to see your loved one when you visit.
• Your loved one seems over-medicated or withdrawn.
• Sudden changes in behavior.
• Staff inattention
• Overuse of restraints.

If you see the signs of abuse or neglect in your loved one, act. We will seek justice for your elder loved one, try to prevent further abuse, and pursue the compensation you deserve.



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Library for Medical Malpractice/Doctor Mistakes:

  • Carolina Medical Error: Cancerous Organ Transplants   
    Description: A man recently received a cancerous kidney in a transplant at Duke University. How often do cancerous organs get transplanted into patients, and why isn't the problem being stopped? Learn more about cancerous organ transplants and Carolina medical malpractice.
  • US Government: Hospitals Need More Quality And Safety Control   
    Description: Part of the new health care bill involves greater responsibility for hospitals - and asks hospitals to lower preventable medical errors, hospital re-admissions, and other safety hazards. While hospitals worry that their revenue may be lowered, patients and health care consumers should benefit from these changes.
  • When Carolina Doctors Commit Sexual Misconduct   
    Description: When North Carolina pediatrician Melvin Levine was accused of sexual abuse by dozens of former patients, many across the state began to wonder about the prevalence of sexual misconduct among physicians. Learn more about what is and is not appropriate behavior for your NC doctor and other medical professionals.
  • Carolina Medical Malpractice: A Focus On Nerve Damage   
    Description: Perhaps one of the most devastating surgical mistakes leaves patients with serious nerve damage - a condition that can lead to years of pain, numbness, and disability. Learn more about nerve damage symptoms and about occurrences of nerve damage medical malpractice in the Carolinas.
  • Does Your North Carolina Doctor Have A History Of Medical Malpractice?   
    Description: North Carolina lawmakers have recently decided to create a searchable online database of medical malpractice information for all NC doctors. This new database of medical malpractice information can help potential patients pick health professionals with stellar records.
  • What Is The Role Of A North Carolina Medical Expert Witness?   
    Description: What is the role of a North Carolina medical malpractice expert witness? Learn more about why a medical expert is vital for a winning medical malpractice case and how medical experts can help juries better understand NC med mal lawsuits.
  • Anesthesia Errors And North Carolina Medical Malpractice   
    Description: One of the most common types of surgical errors have nothing to do with the surgeon and everything to do with the Anesthesiologist. Learn more about examples of anesthesia errors, why anesthesia errors occur, and how they can be prevented.
  • Medication Mistakes In North Carolina Nursing Homes | Nursing Home Neglect Attorney   
    Description: Medication mistakes are all too common in North Carolina nursing homes. Whether nursing home workers are forgetting medications, over-medicating, or stealing medications, your loved one's health could be seriously harmed by nursing home medication errors.
  • North Carolina Statute Of Limitations And Medical Malpractice | North Carolina Medical Malpractice Attorney   
    Description: When you suffer from medical malpractice in North Carolina, you only have a small window of time to consult a lawyer and file a medical malpractice lawsuit. Learn more about the North Carolina medical malpractice statute of limitations in this legal article.
  • Medical Malpractice Statistics | North Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawyer   
    Description: Do you know how many people each year die because of medical malpractice? Or how many serious medication mistakes are made each year in the United States? Or what percentage of doctors are sued at some point during their careers? Learn some shocking medical malpractice statistics.
  • Stories of Wrong Side Surgery: A Terrifying Medical Error | Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawyers   
    Description: Imagine going in for a surgery only to wake up and find the operation was done on the wrong part of your body. Perhaps the wrong knee was operated on - or your healthy kidney was removed instead of the diseased one. Unfortunately, wrong side surgery happens far too often for no good reason.
  • The Frustrations of Dealing with Medicare   
    Description: If you're looking for a qualified attorney to handle your case, you've arrived at the right place. Our firm features attorneys with over 100 years of combined legal experience and a reputation for successful verdicts. Take a moment to review our videos and articles. You'll see why we're a top-notch injury law firm that's ready to work for you. Give us a call at 1-800-752-0042 for a FREE consultation.
  • North Carolina Wrong Diagnosis: NC Medical Malpractice | NC & SC Medical Malpractice Attorneys   
    Description: Did you know that misdiagnosed conditions lead to 40,000 to 80,000 deaths in our hospitals each year? Being diagnosed quickly and accurately is a large part of regaining your health, and a failure to diagnose can be harmful or deadly. Learn more about delayed diagnosis, wrong diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and failure to diagnose in North Carolina.
  • Cerebral Palsy, Birth Injuries, And Medical Malpractice   
    Description: Cerebral palsy has a number of causes, but a number of babies suffer from cerebral palsy after a doctor, nurse, or other health professional makes a mistake during the birthing process. Learn more about cerebral palsy and its causes and symptoms as well as the connection between some cases of cerebral palsy and medical malpractice.
  • Four Common Reasons For Surgical Errors In The Carolinas   
    Description: Surgical errors can result in complications, infection, unnecessary surgery, and even death. Learn about the most common types of surgical errors, including equipment defects, equipment problems, wrong surgery, wrong side surgery, miscommunication, and wrong medication.
  • Bedsores and Carolina Nursing Home Neglect   
    Description: Very simply, bedsores are a red flag for nursing home abuse and adult care abuse. Bedsores are extremely painful and can lead to infection, discomfort, and even death. Learn more about the cause of bedsores, bedsore treatment, bedsore symptoms, and what you should do if your elder loved one is suffering from bedsores in North Carolina (NC) or South Carolina (SC).
  • North Carolina Family Settles Case of Death Due to Negligence by Nursing Home   
    Description: A settlement was reached for $380,000 recently in a North Carolina (NC) case of wrongful death due to nursing negligence. The victim was admitted to a nursing home because she was battling Parkinson’s disease. While in the nursing home, she developed a Stage III “sacral decubitus ulcer”, which lead to her death.
  • Carolina Nursing Home Abuse Information   
    Description: Nursing home abuse and neglect is all too common - and often hard to detect. Learn more about the different types of nursing home abuse and nursing home neglects as well as the red flags of nursing home elder abuse.
  • “Complaints” Used to Pressure Medical Experts Away from Helping Lawyers for Injured Patients   
    Description: Experts in the medical field have complained about the intimidation dealing with the “ethical issues” of their testimony against other doctors in malpractice suits. A number of medical groups are creating a procedure of ethic complaints in order to set a standard and unbiased way of sharing expert testimony in court.
  • Creating Standards for Monitoring the Fetus to Prevent Obstetrical Malpractice   
    Description: Parents who are expecting a newborn often experience a number of worries with the birth of a child. A lot is going on at the hospital at the end of the pregnancy and at the time of delivery. In preparing the mother for birth, appropriate measures are also taken to protect the unborn child. It is important for parents to know that the right procedures are being taken for their baby’s health and that unnecessary injuries are being avoided.

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