BULLOCK v. NEWMAN

No. 8812SC662.

378 S.E.2d 562 (1989)

Sandra A. BULLOCK, Plaintiff, v. William H. NEWMAN, M.D.; William H. Newman, M.D., P.A.; and Cumberland County Hospital System, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

May 2, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David H. Rogers, Raleigh, for plaintiff-appellant.

Anderson, Broadfoot, Johnson & Pittman by Hal W. Broadfoot, Fayetteville, for defendant-appellee Newman.

Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan by C. Ernest Simons, Jr., Raleigh, for defendant-appellee Cumberland County Hospital System, Inc.


JOHNSON, Judge.

The physician-patient relationship between plaintiff and defendant Newman commenced in 1975 when plaintiff went to Dr. Newman to have a lump in her right breast examined. A biopsy was performed which revealed that the lump was benign. Several years passed without event until 6 January 1982 when defendant examined plaintiff because she had noticed bleeding from the nipple of her left breast. Defendant Newman then scheduled a mammogram for 19 January...

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