Filing a North Carolina Medical Malpractice Lawsuit

Are you suffering from an injury, illness, or debilitating condition due to negligent or substandard medical care or treatment?  If so, you may have grounds to file a medical malpractice lawsuit.

Doctors, physicians, and all other healthcare professionals commit medical malpractice when they cause injury, harm, or death to a patient because they failed to provide the same standard of care that another medical professional would provide.  There are many different forms of medical malpractice, some of which include:

• Failure to diagnose a disease or medical condition
• Misdiagnosis a disease or medical condition
• Medication error
• Surgical error or malpractice
• Anesthesia error 
• Emergency room errors 
• Pharmacy errors
• Ordering the wrong tests

In order for a patient to win a medical malpractice lawsuit, they must be able to prove the following:

• That they were being treated by the doctor(s) and medical professional(s) named in the lawsuit, and
• The medical professional(s) acted negligently, recklessly, or below the standard of medical care in their field, and
• That the medical professional's negligence is what caused the injury or condition to occur