HILLSBOROUGH -- Attorneys haggled Monday over whose medical experts should have the last word in the fall of a Nobel Prize-nominated pharmacologist at Britthaven of Chapel Hill nursing home.
Dr. Marian Orlowski was admitted to Britthaven three years ago after surgery at UNC Hospitals. In a negligence case against the nursing home, his widow claims she warned staff that Orlowski tended to wander and might fall if they didn't closely monitor him and provide a bed with side rails. He fell and broke his hip that same day.
"Mr. Orlowski was admitted to Britthaven for less than a day," Carmaletta Henson, his estate's attorney, told Orange County Superior Court Judge Lucy Noble Inman on Monday.
