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TREXLER v. POLLOCK

No. COA98-1629.

522 S.E.2d 84 (1999)

Vonda C. TREXLER, Plaintiff, v. David C. POLLOCK, M.D., Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, Inc., Coastal Emergency Services, Inc., Coastal Emergency Group, Inc., Coastal Emergency Physicians, P.A., Coastal Emergency Services Management Group, Inc., Coastal Emergency Services of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc., C.H.G. Properties, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

November 16, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph M. James, P.C. by Randolph M. James, Winston-Salem, for plaintiff.

Bennett & Guthrie, P.L.L.C. by Richard V. Bennett and Stanley P. Dean, Winston-Salem, for defendant Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital and Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P. by Samuel G. Thompson, Deanna L. Davis, and Michael R. Gordon, Raleigh, for defendants David C. Pollock, M.D., Coastal Emergency Services, Inc., Coastal Emergency Group, Inc., Coastal Emergency Physicians, P.A., Coastal Emergency Services of the Mid-Atlantic, Inc. and C.H.G. Properties, Inc.

WYNN, Judge.

The continuing course of treatment doctrine tolls the statute of limitations for a medical malpractice claim upon the last act of a defendant physician. The plaintiff urges us to hold that a prescription medication, absent any other contact with a doctor, constitutes a continuing course of treatment and thereby extends the statute of limitations period. Since the drug prescription was neither continuous nor evidence of subsequent treatment by a physician...

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