Scapegoating within medical matters has been very apparent throughout both time and history. In some occasions of scapegoating, such as sacrifice rituals, specific people are targeted as a scapegoat for people who try to forget about their own wrongdoings. Meanwhile in other occasions, groups, especially minorities, can be targeted together by opposing parties. However, from pathogenic outbreaks to lack of preparedness within hospitals, both individual people and various groups have been held responsible for the worsening of the different outbreaks and ailments of the time. Many times these people or groups were just a doormat, stepped on and ruled over by those who were truly guilty. During the peak of the typhoid fever outbreak, many were