adkikani wrote:
VeritasKarishma nightblade354 gmat1393 workout aragonn generisPlease help me to understand argument and to know where I faltered in PoE.
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Mr. Primm: If hospitals were private enterprises, dependent on profits for their survival, there would be no teaching hospitals, because of the intrinsically high cost of running such hospitals.
Ms. Nakai: I disagree. The medical challenges provided by teaching hospitals attract the very best physicians. This, in turn, enables those hospitals to concentrate on nonroutine cases.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen Ms. Nakai’s attempt to refute Mr. Primm’s claim?
Claim 1: there would be no teaching hospitals
Evidence 1: high cost of running such hospitals.
Claim 2: teaching hospitals can concentrate more on nonroutine cases.
Evidence 2: medical challenges = best physicians
I need to weaken claim 1 and support claim 2
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(A) Doctors at teaching hospitals command high salaries.
Out of scope, what doctors command is not our concern.
Who are these doctors - physicians?
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(B) Sophisticated, nonroutine medical care commands a high price.
If non routine medical care commands a high price, will not running cost of teaching
hospitals go down?
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(C) Existing teaching hospitals derive some revenue from public subsidies.
Out of scope, from where do teaching hospitals derive revenue is not our concern at all
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(D) The patient mortality rate at teaching hospitals is high.
Then fewer patients will be coming to the hospital, does nothing to weaken claim 1
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(E) The modern trend among physicians is to become highly specialized.
Yes I feel this strengthens claim 2. More specialized physicians = more revenue for teaching hospitals from non-routine cases.
If you don't mind , I'll try to explain.. actually your reasoning is sound..but the reasoning you used for E , should actually (exactly the same) be used for B.
Mr. Primm: If hospitals were private enterprises, dependent on profits for their survival, there would be no teaching hospitals, because of the intrinsically high cost of running such hospitals.
- P says if hospitals were for-profit , then they wouldn't be teaching hospitals too. Why? P says costs for such hospitals would be substantially high. And if a hospital cares about profit why would it opt for such costly ( cost to hospital) programs? Reasoning is good right?? But there is a major leap here. P makes hisconclusion on the basis of PROFIT and supports it with "evidence of costs"
But profit= revenue- profit.
What about the revenu?? What if the training somehow (directly or indirectly) actually brings in a lotttt of revenue? .
Ms. Nakai: I disagree. The medical challenges provided by teaching hospitals attract the very best physicians. This, in turn, enables those hospitals to concentrate on nonroutine cases.
- N says Training lures best physicians. This leads to non routine cases. Now P is talking about profits and existence of training for profit hospital and N is talking about training>luring> non routine. So there is gap in B's disagreement. N does not address the issue of costs or profits.. she just says that something happens in training hospital. But how is that related to P's argument?? She doesn't explicitly mention any connection between best physicians or non routine with profits or costs. Then how is her disagreement sound?? That's what we have to do . We have to link her argument with P's argument and then N's argument will make sense and her disagreement prominent.
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(E) The modern trend among physicians is to become highly specialized.
Yes I feel this strengthens claim 2. More specialized physicians = more revenue for teaching hospitals from non-routine cases.[/quote]
You assumed that specialised physicians = more revenue from non routine. Are we told non routine = greater revenue??nope. So how is this Choice even helping N's argument?? N's argument is still not addressing the profits and costs issue of P ! This choice says trend is physicians want to become specialised.so?? Why should Primm care?? His argument still stands and N's disagreement does not make any sense !! ( Period !)
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(B) Sophisticated, nonroutine medical care commands a high price.
Commands high PRICE ( not costs).. If non routine commands high price ( or they are costly TO patients..) then it MAY attract more revenue. And as per N's argument the focus is actually moving towards non routine. She must have assumed (in order to disagree with P) that non routine focus is somehow related to profits and costs. Only then does her argument make sense.
Your reasoning for B:
If non routine medical care commands a high price, will not running cost of teaching
hospitals go down?
How did you reason that high price means running cost of teaching goes down? I mean this is your OWN ASSUMPTION. There is no such relation given to us. It may very well mean that high price may increase revenue and therefore overall profit without affecting teaching costs... You made a huge OWN relation.
Your reasoning for D:
Yes I feel this strengthens claim 2. More specialized physicians = more revenue for teaching hospitals from non-routine cases.
More specialist physians = more revenue?? Where did you get that from?? Argument does not give us any relation as such.. here again you have made your OWN relation .
Please be vary of such OWN ASSUMPTIONS AND RELATIONS.
If you read passage closely , then you'll see the 2 major gaps. In P's ( about teaching bringing any money or not)
And N's disagreement with eveidence that does not address P's main claim.
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