An ailing patient should have easy access to his or her doctor’s record of treating similarly afflicted patients. Through gaining such access, the ailing patient may better determine whether the doctor is competent to treat that medical condition.

While the given recommendation carries some weight in terms of starting a system of doctor-review regarding similarly afflicted patients, there are many things which may get neglected. A record may not be indicative of all the factors that come to play during the course of treatment.

For a certain affliction, the doctor may prescribe a totally different set of courses. This can generally happen depending upon the various types of differences in the prior history of a patient regarding certain disease. Some of them cannot be understood by an ailing patient who accesses doctor's records. Also it is not necessary to what extent the records describe the patients. So there is very less chance that a patient would determine that a doctor is incompetent, when he/she is unable to interpret the medical terms and data relating to them.

Closely related to understanding patient to patient dissimilarities, is the way the patient on the record has taken up the course prescribed by the doctor. It is easily understood that one may have failed to take up the course seriously or have missed a few medicines here and there, which were to be taken very strictly. Also the patient on the records may have another set of conditions along with the concerned condition, like having an allergy to certain salts or chemicals, and so on. In such cases the doctors usually prescribe an alternate salt based on their understanding of the unique situation.

Along the same lines there is also a possibility that the failed treatment of some patient regarding same condition may have led the doctor to realize the potential of incorporating new treatment method, having new and improved medicines. There is always a chance of new breakthrough in that field which is sure to treat the condition. Also we should keep in mind that maybe all the doctors have failure reports on treating such disease or conditions. It can be a new disease or only one salt which is available to treat that medical condition, that the ailing patient has, which would be equally to tough to tackle for all the doctors.

Thus an access to doctor's records may give some assurance if the medical condition was previously treated by the doctor with positive results, but it is illogical to pass a judgement on the competency of a doctor if there was a failure in the past.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 254, Rule ID: DURING_THE_COURSE_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'during'.
Suggestion: during
...ve of all the factors that come to play during the course of treatment. For a certain affliction,...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 314, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ent who accesses doctor's records. Also it is not necessary to what extent the ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 323, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
..., which were to be taken very strictly. Also the patient on the records may have ano...
^^^^
Line 7, column 337, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...d which is sure to treat the condition. Also we should keep in mind that maybe all t...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...tough to tackle for all the doctors. Thus an access to doctor's records may ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 6, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'access'.
Suggestion: access
... to tackle for all the doctors. Thus an access to doctor's records may give some ...
^^^^^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'similarly', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'of course']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.211494252874 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.172413793103 0.157235817809 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0827586206897 0.0880659088768 94% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0597701149425 0.0497285424764 120% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0252873563218 0.0444667217837 57% => OK
Prepositions: 0.108045977011 0.12292977631 88% => OK
Participles: 0.0551724137931 0.0406280797675 136% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.82574979503 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0367816091954 0.030933414821 119% => OK
Particles: 0.00459770114943 0.0016655270985 276% => OK
Determiners: 0.133333333333 0.0997080785238 134% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0298850574713 0.0249443105267 120% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0206896551724 0.0148568991511 139% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2354.0 2732.02544248 86% => OK
No of words: 399.0 452.878318584 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.89974937343 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.363408521303 0.366273622748 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.273182957393 0.280924506359 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.172932330827 0.200843997647 86% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.142857142857 0.132149295362 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82574979503 2.79330140395 101% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 219.290929204 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.491228070175 0.48968727796 100% => OK
Word variations: 53.3961679193 55.4138127331 96% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 24.9375 23.380412469 107% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.1739503368 59.4972553346 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.125 141.124799967 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9375 23.380412469 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.625 0.674092028746 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 52.2557957393 51.4728631049 102% => OK
Elegance: 1.45535714286 1.64882698954 88% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.504342003101 0.391690518653 129% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.127839791444 0.123202303941 104% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0529306892478 0.077325440228 68% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.599861041849 0.547984918172 109% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.158800331359 0.149214159877 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.207436958799 0.161403998019 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613883738514 0.0892212321368 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.427406728177 0.385218514788 111% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0900205165854 0.0692045440612 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.330264819132 0.275328986314 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505463698634 0.0653680567796 77% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.4325221239 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 7.22455752212 69% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 13.5995575221 81% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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