Writing Based on Reading and Listening Directions: For this task, you will read a passage about an academic topic and yo

The modern medical record database can be regarded as a technological product of our age, and again, like any other product, it has its own limitations.
    The superficial convenience brought on by the medical record database cannot cover up its unavailability. Most doctors, in all the years preceding computer technology, have formed the habit of writing medical records on paper. What’s more, imagine this scenario: is it likely that in an emergency, doctors will still choose to turn on the computer and input all the records and pertinent information on a keyboard with 26 letters scattered about arbitrarily? Of course not. Instead, they will find a piece of paper immediately and write down what’s on their minds. Therefore, the expenses put into the transportation and storage of paper cannot actually be saved, because they are necessary in the medical profession.
    When in the process of examining patients, doctors are accustomed to writing medical records on paper, and they often will have nurses or assistants input the data into a computer for them. This method causes more mistakes, because the typists, due to the doctors’ poor handwriting, may confuse one word with another and therefore input the wrong data into the computer. So, medical record databases cannot reduce the possibility of life-threatening mistakes.
    As to the possible benefits of using patients’ medical records as references for future research mentioned in the reading, as everyone with common sense should know, it is absolutely illegal. All patients’ medical records are protected by very stringent laws and cannot be cited easily. Only if the patients themselves agree to publicize their records can hospitals make use of them for future research. Hence, reality is a far cry from being as easy as what was discussed in the reading.