In James JT’s “A new, evidence-based estimate of patient harms associated with hospital care,” he discusses the reviews of the medical records of patients who were treated in New York hospitals. The research pointed out that about 98,000 people die every year because of medical errors. I find that this article points out a huge problem in the medical system. I think it may be related to the fact that there are too many patients and not enough doctors. You often hear of doctors working extremely long hours, and they are not able to keep up with the high demand. I think that this may have something to do with the fact that so many people are dying because doctors are making mistakes. I should also note that I believe the process of allowing people to become doctors might be too relaxed. Because there is such a high need for doctors, medical schools might not be as strict about who enters the industry. I also want to raise another question about the school system itself, and state that these medical schools are largely interested in increasing their own profits, rather than being completely concerned with allowing only the most qualified individuals to graduate from medical school. This research really shows the need to take treating people more seriously in order for the number of deaths to be decreased, but ultimately I think it expresses the need for more qualified doctors.

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

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