Legal Opinion
Watts v. Cumberland County Hospital System, Inc.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided June 3, 1986No. 384A85PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Justice.
The record before this Court indicates the following facts:
On 7 June 1974 Linda Cade Watts was injured in an automobile accident. She was treated at the emergency room at Cape Fear Valley Hospital, where X rays were made of her right arm, right knee, sternum, and ribs. She was released the same day. Between 10 June and 2 July Mrs. Watts was seen five times by a physician in Laurinburg, North Carolina, for complaints of pain in a number of sites, including her neck and back.
In early July Mrs. Watts revisited the emergency room because of persistent pain in her left knee and…
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