A patient is lying in a hospital bed in an intensive care unit of a hospital in Germany 2015. Above the man is a monitor for heart rate and other parameters, to the right are apparatuses (infusion pumps) for administering medicine into the bloodstream. The standing person is a visitor. The orange sign says "Infektiös", which is German for "contagious". The persons on the picture were made unidentifiable by pixelization of the faces.
The patient suffered from a very severe sepsis due to a prior surgery of the intestinal region from which he returned to his home too early, and after which grave spasms due to a food intolerance had led to a rupture in the region which had been treated during the surgery. This had induced multi-organ failure caused by a severe bacterial infection of the body between the hip region and the lungs, as the patient had returned to hospital only after two days during which he suffered from various symptoms. He had to have an emergency surgery. After subsequently spending two months in the intensive care unit and one further month in a specialized hospital department for kidney treatment, the patient had lost weight from 75 kg to less than 50 kg. He then left, fully recovered within weeks and is since then entirely well until present (2023), without any remains of the events other than the 20 cm long vertical operation scar on the chest.