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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position
Healthcare as a service is important for the wellbeing of the population, and transparency in this field, as in any field, is vital. It is important for hospitals and doctors to be transparent with patients about the different parts of the treatment process. But does this mean that a patient should be able to see their doctor's record of treating patients in the past? This is a complex issue, with many aspects to be considered. One could argue that this wouldn't function as transparency, but as a privacy issue, and a reduction of the work put in by doctors in the healthcare system.
Doctors aim to do their best when treating their patients, and a reasonable assumption to make here is that patients already know what field the doctors work in. (For instance, cardiology, nephrology, etc.) However, they may be curious as to how their doctor did in curing other similar patients' issues. This is quite a shaky and tedious way for them to think, due to various factors that one may not immediately think about. If a doctor treated 5 patients having similar conditions, where 2 healed quickly and 3 did not improve, then it is unreasonable for a patient who, say, has access to this information, to believe that they have a 40% chance of solving their health issue. This is because the other patients may each come from different backgrounds, have different diets and routines, and may simply have different body metabolisms. This may even scare the new patient into thinking that the doctor is unfit to carry out whatever treatment or procedure they plan on executing. It is important to remember that doctors go through many years of studies and practice to be able to work for the common man; If they had not passed their past evaluations, they would be held back until they do. Hence, simply having access to the past records of a doctor would not help a patient in determining their competency.
But what about all the talk about transparency, one might ask? Indeed, there are other aspects of the healthcare system that ought to be made clear to the public. Details of what different payments are for, exact information about side-effects and post-treatment safety after a procedure: all these should not be shielded from an ailing patient. But a doctor's past record is not like the aforementioned things; humans are complex machines, each functioning in a unique way, with different physical characteristics. It is highly possible that a previous patient of a doctor had a different undeclared condition that led their health condition to worsen, it may be the case that one of the patients came to the doctor after their health issue worsened beyond repair. The next question one may pose is: Why not let that information be available, let the patient judge it all by themselves? But no, that would be a violation of the privacy of other patients. It would serve as a bad precedent, in general, for people to have access to the health conditions of strangers. Thus, though transparency is of peak importance, it does not serve a valid argument in favour of the given claim.
Finally, a person who is in favour of the claim, but understands its faults, may wonder how they can feel safe going to a doctor; what if a doctor has had an extremely bad track record with a certain ailment? This is where the health system must do its part. Decisions on which doctor is best to aid people suffering from a disease must be taken confidentially. Data on the doctor's record could be evaluated anonymously, with careful effort made to help the public. Retaining public faith is essential for a healthcare system; if a doctor was unable to solve a certain ailment 99 times out of 100, then we can concede that some action has to be taken, albeit on the back-end. Doctors themselves, though, would also understand this, since the intent of the medical profession is to serve the public. They could ensure that the doctor gets the required training for the specific treatment, so that the number of unsatisfied patients is kept at the minimum.
Hence, an ailing patient should not be able to have easy access to their doctor's past records of treating similar patients, as it would not give them a good picture of the doctor's competency.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 458, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...e considered. One could argue that this wouldnt function as transparency, but as a priv...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 1061, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'practice being'.
Suggestion: practice being
...rs go through many years of studies and practice to be able to work for the common man; If the...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 351, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a doctor' or simply 'doctors'?
Suggestion: a doctor; doctors
...be shielded from an ailing patient. But a doctors past record is not like the aforementio...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 458, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a unique way" with adverb for "unique"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... are complex machines, each functioning in a unique way, with different physical characteristic...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 173, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'doctors'' or 'doctor's'?
Suggestion: doctors'; doctor's
...uld not give them a good picture of the doctors competency.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, as to, for instance, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 33.0505617978 185% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3513.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 732.0 442.535393258 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79918032787 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.20149002853 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73656863465 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 326.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445355191257 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1053.9 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.2631273768 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.322580645 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6129032258 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.16129032258 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329430224589 0.243740707755 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0938686587963 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0975723676993 0.0758088955206 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234008008618 0.150359130593 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0952692411049 0.0667264976115 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.8420337079 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 100.480337079 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 458, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...e considered. One could argue that this wouldnt function as transparency, but as a priv...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 1061, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'practice being'.
Suggestion: practice being
...rs go through many years of studies and practice to be able to work for the common man; If the...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 351, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a doctor' or simply 'doctors'?
Suggestion: a doctor; doctors
...be shielded from an ailing patient. But a doctors past record is not like the aforementio...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 458, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a unique way" with adverb for "unique"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... are complex machines, each functioning in a unique way, with different physical characteristic...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 173, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'doctors'' or 'doctor's'?
Suggestion: doctors'; doctor's
...uld not give them a good picture of the doctors competency.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, hence, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, as to, for instance, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 61.0 33.0505617978 185% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3513.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 732.0 442.535393258 165% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79918032787 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.20149002853 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73656863465 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 326.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445355191257 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1053.9 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 6.24550561798 240% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.2631273768 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.322580645 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6129032258 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.16129032258 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329430224589 0.243740707755 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0938686587963 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0975723676993 0.0758088955206 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234008008618 0.150359130593 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0952692411049 0.0667264976115 143% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.8420337079 133% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 100.480337079 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.