siddarth306

Hi, Could you please review my GRE essay? Its my first essay and looking at other essay's is realised its a bit short. But still would appreciate and love your valuable feedback Question: " An ailing patient should have easy access to is 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 the medical condition." Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain the reason 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. Answer: Treatment for a patient is a very challenging task, not only for the doctors, but for the patients too. Having faith on a treatment done by a doctor which comes at an expensive cost is always a confusing decision to take. Though having access to the doctor's past records may ease the patient's trouble to some extent, there are alot of challenges that need to be tackled for it. Firstly, prior to any any treatment there is always a doctor-patient confidentiality that is observed for any treamtment. For example, some patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease would be uncomfortable in explaining to the doctor about his condition if he knows that this confidentiality is going to be violated. This may lead from minor to major lapses in the treatment. Thus either this may result in the patient suffering both in health and financially or the hospital suffereing due to unwillingness of paitents to take the treatment at that hospital. Apart from this, as technology evolves, new treatment methods are developed and thus a doctor's skill is not the only contributing factor to a successful treatment. For instance, tomorrow if technology gives us an easier and less painful remedy for treating cancer, a patient would be more concerned about the technologythan about the doctors skill. Thus it would be wrong to say that the doctors past records would help in taking a better judgement about the treatment for a patient. To summarize, though a sense of transparency could be seen if the patient has access to the past records of a doctor, the cons outweigh the pros and it would not be a wise decision to do so.