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OA is B

OE:

Step 1: ID Question Type and Task
The question asks you to explain the discrepancy which indicates that this is a Paradox Question.

Task: Find the seemingly contradictory issue and pose it in the form of a question.

Step 2: Read the Argument and Extract Necessary Information:
The necessary information is the paradox, identify the paradox and pose it to yourself as a question.

Paradox: Why would the patient`s health decline after starting a drug that is successful in other patients and by most standards better than other drugs?

Step 3: Formulate an Answer to the Question
Formulate a resolution to the paradox (if possible).

Remember, the best answer provides a connection between the two sides of the paradox without changing or discounting either side.

Step 4: Eliminate Answer Choices:


(A) Keep it. This might explain why what was expected didn`t occur.

(B) Keep. This presents a partial explanation for the ineffectiveness of the treatment, by suggesting that it caused as many problems as it cured.

(C) Keep it. This might explain the discrepancy.

(D) Doesn`t explain. It is irrelevant that the patient just recovered from pneumonia.

(E) Doesn`t explain. This further confirms the paradox since the success should be expected in this patient.

Step 5: Identify differences in remaining choices

(A) This choice is partially irrelevant since the other treatments for which it is used are not relevant to our issue here.

(C) This choice requies the assumption that the treatments are in conflict, but does not directly point to negative consequences of other treatments.

(B) This provides the best explanation, though it does not address why the treatment was successful in other patients it does clarify why it was successful in this patient
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A - Cannot be inferred.
B - Correct.
C - Maybe correct.
D - Out of Scope
E - Out of Scope.

Between B & C I vote for B.



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