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.
At the first glance, while being able to see a doctor's patient record may seem as a reasonable demand for a patient, there are a few subtleties that one needs to consider which are of significant importance.
If we assume that a patient is not from the healthcare team including nurses, pharmacists, etc, we would then deduct that she is layman in understanding medical jargon. Thus, if she sees "dyspnea" in a doctor's history, she would not understand it. Thanks to the power of the Internet, she can search this word and more often than not, Google will tell her what dyspnea is; this data is probably gathered from Wikipedia. Assuming this data is correct, this process may help the patient understand the doctor's area of expertise; however, one subtlety is that she might attribute her symptom to being "dyspnea" but actually it is not. In other words, the translational process that happens from understanding the doctor's expertise to correlating that to your own issue is faulty to a great degree. For example, she might think she has dyspnea and think it is not concerning, but it is really a life-threatening respiratory symptom if assessed by a doctor. Therefore, although quite a reasonable demand at first, this would yield to self-diagnosis which is discouraged. This is all because the patient is not familiar with the medical terminology.
The self-diagnosis could potentially lead to self-treatment or the patient not taking any action. For instance, she might think she just needs a cough syrup, while it is an infection that requires urgent attention. Or she might think her problem is not serious, that her left hand ache, which is a warning sign for heart attack, is just due to overwork. Then she would not seek emergency action.
True, the doctor could manifest his or her patient history by simple terms. But it does not takes a long time for the sick individual to find out that one cardiologist and one orthopedist have both listed "hand ache" in their history. The important issue to note is that even "simple" symptoms such as nausea are prevalent in many disorders. This would confuse and frustrate the patient and is not of any help. The best course of action is to seek a general physician, which can refer the individual to a specialist if necessary.
In conclusion, while having the comfort to just find out what kind of patients a doctor treats seems logical, it is far more complicated and nuanced than that as described above. Not having this access could actually save patients lives.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 213, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'doctors'' or 'doctor's'?
Suggestion: doctors'; doctor's
...s, if she sees 'dyspnea' in a doctors history, she would not understand it. T...
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Line 3, column 511, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'doctors'' or 'doctor's'?
Suggestion: doctors'; doctor's
...ess may help the patient understand the doctors area of expertise; however, one subtlet...
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Line 3, column 731, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'doctors'' or 'doctor's'?
Suggestion: doctors'; doctor's
...ess that happens from understanding the doctors expertise to correlating that to your o...
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Line 3, column 874, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ight think she has dyspnea and think it is not concerning, but it is really a life-threatening re...
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Line 7, column 93, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'take'
Suggestion: take
...istory by simple terms. But it does not takes a long time for the sick individual to ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, kind of, such as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 58.6224719101 67% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2142.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 429.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.99300699301 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0348576136 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517482517483 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5939512441 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.1 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.45 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 5.21951772744 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.21005747621 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0682267911832 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0545577936938 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130799203068 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0500070625756 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.