Laws don't state doctors must be perfect, but health care professionals must treat patients in Charlotte, North Carolina with a basic level of care. If a doctor neglects to follow certain protocols, they could get sued for malpractice. Two common types of malpractice...
Medical Malpractice
Is undiagnosed a misdiagnosis?
Undiagnosed is a misdiagnosis, but you might not always have a medical malpractice case. It depends on many different factors, such as how honest you were with the doctor about your symptoms, whether you experienced more harm and how reasonable it is to expect the...
The difference between medical malpractice and neglect
If a doctor in North Carolina fails to uphold basic standards of care, they may commit medical malpractice or medical negligence. A medical malpractice case requires the plaintiff to prove certain elements, one of which includes neglect. However, medical neglect...
Properly diagnosing severe persistent headaches
Bad headaches plague many North Carolina residents. A situation in which people experience more persistent, severe headaches can leave them wondering if they are afflicted with some sort of serious underlying health condition or disease. There are some instances in...
Catastrophic consequences of a failure to diagnose
Medical errors ranked as the third leading cause of death across the United States, according to The BMJ, one of the oldest and most highly regarded peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. One of the more commonplace types of medical negligence or medical...
Are doctors liable for defective medical devices?
Most people in North Carolina and across the country place a lot of trust in their doctors. When patients have a procedure like a hip replacement, they expect that they can trust the professional performing the surgery. If things don't go according to plan and the...
Misdiagnosis of a sore throat can be a serious medical matter
A sore throat is a condition that causes many North Carolina residents to seek medical attention, never expecting a potentially very serious diagnosis to follow. This is also the common assumption of a physician as well, who then will diagnose the problem and...
Doctor fatigue can lead to medical errors
Whenever a medical relationship between a doctor and patient exists, there is a certain standard of care the patient can expect. Medical malpractice in North Carolina happens when a physician or other medical professional injures a patient while failing to live up to...
Convolutional neural networks not diagnosing skin cancer well
Convolutional neural networks are algorithms used in machine learning mainly for the analyzing of visual images. In the medical field, CNNs can analyze images of possible skin cancers. North Carolina residents should know that many experts have touted the...
Did your ophthomologist diagnose you properly?
Patients in North Carolina and elsewhere should be aware that many retinal diseases mimic age-related wet macular degeneration, or AMD. If you are misdiagnosed, there could be severe consequences. What is an AMD mimicker? An AMD mimicker is a retinal disease that...