S1E3: When Infection Hides

Send us Fan MailIt looked like cancer. The imaging pointed one direction, the surgeon went in expecting a tumor — but what they found changed everything. A routine sepsis workup becomes a case that no one saw coming, and the real diagnosis hides in plain sight until the stakes are already life-threatening. In this episode, we follow a clinical trajectory that most physicians will never encounter — but if you do, you need to recognize it before it's too late. We also look at what happens when a case like this ends up in a courtroom, and what your chart needs to show when hindsight comes knocking.Support the show