Hensell v. Winslow

LEWIS, Judge.

Several issues are presented. First, does plaintiff “discover” under N.C.G.S. § l-15(c), the presence of a foreign object left in her body when her chiropractor interprets an x-ray’s reflection of an abnormality to be a foreign object? Second, does a physician’s letter to a patient upon whom he has performed surgery, indicating the need for the removal of a foreign object, qualify as a “continuing relationship” under the continuing treatment doctrine when the letter is written five years after the last physician-patient contact and which letter was prompted by a chiropractor’s…