In reading “Round the Red Lamp,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, I found he made a great effort at addressing issues that were challenging and that people did not really want to talk about. He adds literature that helps, as he explains, to address the painful topics as well as the cheerful ones. The stories that he brings up are enlightening into the medical experience. It helps to shed some light on the ways that physicians address their patients. One of the most interesting components that I found in the stories was in “A False Start,” which features a physician who is attempting to establish a practice. He gives up so that he could have the opportunity to treat the town’s richest man. This sheds some light on the issues of the treatment being made more available to people who have money. This raises a major class issues in medicine, and shows that those who have money are much more likely to receive medical treatment

In Allan Marshall’s “How Many Die from Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?,” he raises some interesting points about the challenges people face because of some negligence on the part of physicians. In fact people can often die because physicians are negligent in the ways they are treating their patients. I find the number cited, such as up to 440,000 people die each year because of medical mistakes, to be extremely shocking. I am wondering if this is largely due to human error, or if the doctors are not doing a good enough job at treating their patients. This type of information is challenging to digest, because it makes me question how protected I am if I go to the hospital, and it makes me wonder whether the large sums of money that people pay in the United States for medical treatment is really warranted if it is hit or miss whether the person will be treated properly