In the past several years, a number of technological advances have made laser eye surgery more widely available. The procedure uses tiny lasers to alter the surface of the eyeball, significantly improving a patient's vision. In spite of its growing popularity, however, laser eye surgery is a costly procedure. Given the number of problems that may accompany the laser vision correction procedure, it is unlikely that many will choose to undergo the surgery.
The first problem with laser eye surgery is the cost. The process requires sophisticated laser systems, which can cost several million dollars. In order to remain in business, the doctors administering laser eye surgery have to charge patients approximately $1,000 to $2,000 per eye. For many people, this is far too costly.
In addition, there are concerns about post -operative problems, which are issues that may arise after the surgery. There have been reports of the cornea (the lenses at the front of the eye) detaching themselves from the eyes after laser vision correction. Moreover, laser vision correction advertises a quick recovery time, but many patients report taking weeks and sometimes months to heal fully from the surgery.
It also remains unclear how long laser vision correction will last. A number of people have to go back to a doctor just four or five years after their surgery for another procedure. Even worse, others have to receive a second round of surgery just a few months after the initial procedure in order to perfect their vision. For most consumers, the benefit is not worth the risks and costs involved with the procedure.
The reading and the lecture are both about the eye surgery, its effectiveness and costs. According to the reading passage, the weaknesses of the surgery and related with the operation high costs make those surgeries unlikely become popular. The lecturer casts doubt on the claims made in the article. By using the following evidence, she posits that neither high costs nor long healing is accurate constituent of the procedure.
To begin with, the professor contends that the price per surgery is decreasing, demonstrating that the actual decrease in price has already reached thirty per cent for just several years. The growth of competition among different surgeons and technological boom both constitute actually to the decrease in price of such procedures. This statement counters the authors point, according to which the price of the eye surgery grows up, driven mostly by an increase in the cost side of the medical procedure.
Furthermore, according to the lecture, his people who meet post-operative problems are usually extremums. The professor demonstrates that patients with side effects behaved inconsistently with the healing practice, climbing on Everest, where the high pressure is harmful for eyes. She states that it usually takes no more than three days to recover from the operation. This point differs from one in the article, according to which it usually takes long to recover after the surgeon intervention.
By the same token, the lecturer puts forth the idea that it is extremely uncommon to return to the surgeon in order to repeat the procedure after a short time period. She states that the humanity has cases which demonstrate the long-lasting effect of the surgery and it could take more than twenty years to deteriorate again.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, furthermore, if, so, to begin with, by the same token
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 30.3222958057 135% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1479.0 1373.03311258 108% => OK
No of words: 283.0 270.72406181 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22614840989 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76788311542 2.5805825403 107% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 145.348785872 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575971731449 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 419.366225166 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 3.25607064018 215% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9543481617 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.769230769 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 21.698381199 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84615384615 7.06452816374 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.105560784288 0.272083759551 39% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0358344055909 0.0996497079465 36% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0237106872777 0.0662205650399 36% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0621555471913 0.162205337803 38% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0259957507662 0.0443174109184 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 53.8541721854 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.2367328918 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.42419426049 106% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 63.6247240618 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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