New data suggest a striking rise in the deadly syndrome, but hospitals have a profit-motive to find it—and it may have been there all along. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-14/america-has-a-27-billion-sepsis-crisis
On a semi-related note, I went into an ENT for a sinus infection (MRI showed significant sinus issue) and the doc just prescribes an anti biotic without even doing a culture to determine what infection it is, or whether it is fungal or bacteria, nothing. Just "oh sure, here's a script". It's been 7 days and I still have the symptoms. How much do you want to bet the chump misdiagnosed? No time is taken at all on this stuff.