Discussion
Medical school professor: Most malpractice suits arise out of patients’ perceptions that their doctors are acting negligently or carelessly. Many doctors now regard medicine as a science rather than an art, and are less compassionate as a result. Harried doctors sometimes treat patients rudely, discourage them from asking questions, or patronize them. Lawsuits could be avoided if doctors learned to listen better to patients. Unfortunately, certain economic incentives encourage doctors to treat patients rudely.
The medical school professor’s statements, if true, most strongly support which one of the following?
| (A) | Economic incentives to treat patients rudely are the main cause of doctors being sued for malpractice. |
| (B) | ... |
| (C) | ... |
| (D) | ... |
| (E) | ... |
| (F) | ... |
The solution is
Posted: 10/11/2015 05:27
Answer E uses extreme or absolute wording, the question stimulus contains many and a specified group of doctors, and the word sometimes. Answer e states in broad absolute terms that (all) doctors foster through their actions the perception ect. Never once did the question apply this behavioral change in doctors to the entire field, it again and again states its population of interest in non absolute, parts of the whole terms, and therefore answer e is too out of scope and misses the conclusion. Answer c reflects the most modifier seen in the conclusion of the argument, and is most strongly supported given the arguments entire point is that suits over malpractice don't come from actual malpractice, but rather the perception of patients towards the doctors acting this way that makes them feel uncared for, prompting a malpractice suit not over malpractice but over misperceptions by the patient regarding whether the doctor cares for them or not.