Care hospital wants to know the medical speciality visited by the maximum number of patients.

CareHospital.py

# Care hospital wants to know the medical speciality visited by the maximum number of patients. Assume that the patient id of the patient along with the medical speciality visited by the patient is stored in a list. The details of the medical specialities are stored in a dictionary as follows:
# {
# "P":"Pediatrics",
# "O":"Orthopedics",
# "E":"ENT
# } 

# Write a function to find the medical speciality visited by the maximum number of patients and return the name of the speciality.
# Also write the pytest test cases to test the program.

def max_visited_speciality(patient_medical_speciality_list,medical_speciality):
   
    result = [0,0,0]
    i = 1 
    while(i< len(patient_medical_speciality_list)):
        if patient_medical_speciality_list[i] == 'P': result[0] = result[0] + 1
        elif patient_medical_speciality_list[i] == 'O' : result[1] = result[1] + 1
        else : result[2] = result[2] + 1
        i = i + 2
    a = max(result)
    a = result.index(a)
    if a == 0: speciality = 'Pediatrics'
    elif a == 1: speciality ='Orthopedics'
    else : speciality = 'ENT'

    return speciality


patient_medical_speciality_list=[301,'O',302, 'P' ,305, 'P' ,401, 'E' ,656, 'E']
medical_speciality={"P":"Pediatrics","O":"Orthopedics","E":"ENT"}
speciality=max_visited_speciality(patient_medical_speciality_list,medical_speciality)
print(speciality)

def max_visited_speciality(patient_medical_speciality_list,medical_speciality):
# write your logic here
count1 = patient_medical_speciality_list.count('P')
count2 = patient_medical_speciality_list.count('O')
count3 = patient_medical_speciality_list.count('E')
if(count1> count2 and count1> count3):
speciality = medical_speciality["P"]
elif(count2> count1 and count2> count3):
speciality = medical_speciality["O"]
else:
speciality = medical_speciality["E"]

return speciality

#provide different values in the list and test your program
patient_medical_speciality_list=[301,'P',302, 'P' ,305, 'P' ,401, 'E' ,656, 'E']
medical_speciality={"P":"Pediatrics","O":"Orthopedics","E":"ENT"}
speciality=max_visited_speciality(patient_medical_speciality_list,medical_speciality)
print(speciality)

Nice. You used count method of list. I haven't thought of this at that time. Thanks

Simpler and easy to understand. Thanks.

these don't work if the sum of specialty visited by patients varies..
example >> [301,'P',302, 'P' ,305, 'P' ,401, 'E' ,656, 'E']
for this, the code will output "Pediatrics" while the answer should be ENT, as the sum of patients visiting 'P" is 908, while the patients visiting 'E' is 1057.

should not it be like this:

def max_visited_speciality(patient_medical_speciality_list,medical_speciality):

result = [0,0,0]
i = 1 
while(i< len(patient_medical_speciality_list)):
    if patient_medical_speciality_list[i] == 'P':
        result[0] = result[0]+patient_medical_speciality_list[i-1]
    elif patient_medical_speciality_list[i] == 'O' : 
        result[1] =result[1]+patient_medical_speciality_list[i-1]
    else :
        result[2] = result[2]+patient_medical_speciality_list[i-1]
    i = i + 2
a = max(result)
a = result.index(a)
if a == 0: speciality = 'Pediatrics'
elif a == 1: speciality ='Orthopedics'
else : speciality = 'ENT'

return speciality

patient_medical_speciality_list=[301,'O',302, 'P' ,305, 'P' ,401, 'E' ,656, 'E']
#patient_medical_speciality_list=[101,'O',102,'O',302,'P',305,'E',401,'O',656,'O']
#patient_medical_speciality_list=[101,'P',102,'O',302,'P',305,'P']
#patient_medical_speciality_list=[101,'O',102,'E',302,'P',305,'P',401,'E',656,'O',987,'E']

medical_speciality={"P":"Pediatrics","O":"Orthopedics","E":"ENT"}
speciality=max_visited_speciality(patient_medical_speciality_list,medical_speciality)
print(speciality)