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This article discusses the importance of relaying information from doctors to patients. It states how important it is for the patients to actually understand the information they are being told. All people have different levels of literacy that doctors need to be made aware of.The article stressed the importance of doctors being clear and precise to there patients and not using 'doctor lingo'.

This article discusses how the doctors and patients relationship is. It talks about how different patients have different literacy levels that the doctor should understand. many patients feel as though they are not able to understand what there doctors are trying to prevail to them.

This article is mentions the way in which doctors communicate to their patients about their health problems. So many patients do not have health literacy, which makes it very important for doctors to inform their patients properly.

This article is about the APA, which is the American Psychiatric Association. It talked about how doctors and other members meet in groups to discuss how learning needs to change to benefit others. They really stressed the importance of internet learning and how it would benefit doctors, students, and patients.

Many patients misunderstand the written questions American doctors have them answer before physical exams, a finding that calls into question the usefulness of these screening tools, new reports say.

This article does not address media coverage of politics but addresses media coverage of women and men in television shows. Women are often portrayed doing jobs such as childcare, nurse, household chores, and teachers while men are seen as doctors, lawyers, and the dominators of the family. Although this is changing, it still plays a significant role in most television shows. Women do not only struggle with gender roles on television but often male writers dominate female writers in the film industry. By using a different example of literacy in my paper, it will show how women are betrayed in the media besides political media. This is important to use as support for my main points in the paper. I can relate gender bias both in politics and in television to show people how this is just not happening in one area of the public media.

This article discusses a study that was done to test the understanding of patients literacy of food labels. It was tested by a test known as, REALM, and given to adults. This test showed that doctors need to provide nutrition information to patients to improve there health before and after surgery.

This article first discusses what health literacy is, and has some background information. It then discusses how many patients have very low literacy levels. It talks about how health literacy can change how a patient recovers or understands there treatments

This article discusses the health information listed for different countries, this one focuses on Germany. It talks about how the websites are formed and how they are able to be accessed by others. It discusses the different objectives and methods that the website uses.