In “Do Multivitamins Really Work”, Kiera Butler says that she has just began taking an adult gummy multivitamin, in which she believes is improving health. Some people can eat healthy all the time and get all their essential vitamins from foods, but that is getting harder to do so a vitamin is perfect for some people. While a great number of Americans are taking multivitamins now, There are almost no studies to actually support them and actually a few that prove they don’t protect against diseases. The number of people that actually take a multivitamin outnumber the number that don’t, and the ones that do tend to be people that live healthy enough lifestyles that they are all their vitamins through fortified foods, making multivitamins a waste of money. In an analysis of 60 multivitamin brands about a third of the labels contained faults. To conclude this article federal health officials don’t stress the need of multivitamins unless needed for a specific reason like anorexia or very picky eating habits.

In “Doctors who see poorer patients get poorer performance ratings” Doctors and Health analysts at Massachusetts General Hospital found out,through performance measures such as surveys, that poorer patients rate their doctors lower. This puts a huge spin on things because it was always thought that richer patients were harder to please. Because of this new found information future performance measurements will be greatly effected. Medicare insurers want to base salaries off of the rating the doctors get but  if doctors begin getting paid less because they are treating poorer,insured, patients they will stop treating them. With all of this new found information and problems arising, they have now way of telling why doctors got lower ratings. The patients cant tell who is poor or rich around them, and all the doctors the surveys were taken on are in the same practice group. The only thing proposed is that people of higher status and wealth communicate better with doctors then then others.

In “Discussion: How to Improve Doctor Accountability in Medicine?” Blair Hickman points out a 1999 article suggesting a strategy to cut deaths by preventable medical errors in half over the next five years. Fifteen years later many of the problems stated are still present and no one even knows if things are getting better because no one tracks it.  Hickman ends in saying that preventable errors are only the tip of the iceberg, with more than 1 million patients are harmed by injuries or infections to surgical mistakes.