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Physician: The patient is suffering either from disease X or [#permalink]
 15 Nov 2006, 03:18
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13. Physician: The patient is suffering either from disease X or else from disease Y, but there is no available test for distinguishing X from Y. Therefore, since there is an effective treatment for Y but no treatment for X, we must act on the assumption that the patient has a case of Y.
The physician’s reasoning could be based on which one of the following principles?
(A) In treating a patient who has one or the other of two diseases, it is more important to treat the diseases than to determine which of the two diseases the patient has.
(B) If circumstances beyond a decision maker’s control will affect the outcome of the decision maker’s actions, the decision maker must assume that circumstances are unfavorable.
(C) When the soundness of a strategy depends on the truth of a certain assumption, the first step in putting the strategy into effect must be to test the truth of this assumption.
(D) When success is possible only if a circumstance beyond one’s control is favorable, then one’s strategy must be based on the assumption that this circumstance is in fact favorable.
(E) When only one strategy carries the possibility of success, circumstances must as much as possible be changed to fit this strategy.
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I would bet on D.
we can assume lack of proper test to decide whether it is X or Y can be taken as circumstance beyond our control.
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agree D. When X cannot be cured anyway, and the patient can be cured when his disease is Y then then one’s strategy must be based on the assumption that the disease is Y
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I'll root for C. The doc assumes it could be Y, because only Y has an effective treatment available. Also, if the patient doesn't respond to the medication, the chances that the patient has Y can be eliminated - This is what the choice says - test and validate the assumption before discarding it.
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Disease X has no cure but Y has, so the argument says assume it is not X(because even if it is X, you can't do anything about it) but Y(where you can do something) that is causing the symptoms.
D - when you can't control something, assume it is in your favor.
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D....
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