Employee incompetence at the hospital is evident whenever medical workers deviate from or fail to meet accepted standards of care. Sometimes, a negligent misdiagnosis of a condition or failure to detect obvious symptoms can delay potentially crucial medical care. For example, a patient complaining of a sharp pain in the chest could require immediate treatment for a heart attack. If a heartburn remedy or other inappropriate treatment is provided instead, crucial time to treat the heart attack will be lost, causing the patient’s condition to deteriorate or become fatal. Whether such mistakes occur because of inattention, haste, or lack of experience, any failure to follow medical protocol represents a case of hospital negligence. Our lawyers based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania have a special focus on the investigation and litigation of medical malpractice cases resulting from hospital errors and carelessness.