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GOINS v. PULEO

No. COA97-1071.

502 S.E.2d 621 (1998)

Juliene McClellan GOINS, Plaintiff, v. Joel G. PULEO, M.D., Ellen A. Puleo, M.D., and Pinehurst Women's Clinic, P.A., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 7, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gill & Dow by Douglas R. Gill, Southern Pines, for plaintiff-appellant.

Walker, Barwick, Clark & Allen, L.L.P. by Robert D. Walker, Jr. and Jeffrey T. Ammons, Goldsboro, for defendant-appellees.

WYNN, Judge.

In the subject case, the trial court found that the three year statute of limitations on medical malpractice actions barred Juliene McClellan Goins' action. Under North Carolina law, the continuous course of treatment doctrine tolls the running of the statute of limitations for the period between the original act and the ensuing discovery and correction of its consequences. Horton v. Carolina Medicorp., Inc., 344 N.C. 133, 137,

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