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Re: Because most hospitals suffer a chronic undersupply of physicians, pat [#permalink]
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A) Hospitals should expand their medical staffs. - The argument doesn't talk about the number of doctors and nurses. Out of scope.
b) Physicians cannot be trained to perform initial examinations themselves. - Opposite. The doctors need help in the initial examinations.
c) Emergency rooms will run more smoothly if initial examinations are performed. - Opposite. The initial examinations are currently performed by the doctors. That's why the help of the nurses will make the examination of the patients faster.
d) Hospitals are always fully staffed with nurses. - Not necessary. Use the negation technique. Also, each word counts: the word "fully" is not necessary.
e) Nurses are competent to judge the severity of patients’ conditions. - BINGO


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Re: Because most hospitals suffer a chronic undersupply of physicians, pat [#permalink]
Need a hand with this one. I know arguing about questions is futile but this is not an OG question.

Since the argument is about reducing the wait times in ERs, why does the competency of nurses have a greater impact on the argument than the number of available nurses? With the opposite of option D: "The hospitals are never fully staffed with nurses," the hospital would have the same problem with nurses as they do with physicians, thus having no impact on wait times.

I agree that the incompetent nurses would cause the wrong patients to be triaged but they would still reduce wait times. If the argument were about the treatment of the patients, this would certainly be more critical
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Conclusion :- Nurses should perform initial examinations on patients to identify which one needs immediate attention and which don't.

Negating answer choice E :-
Nurses are not competent to judge the severity of patients’ conditions.{As nurses are not competent then they should not perform initial examinations on
patients breaking the conclusion of the argument} Hence E is the correct assumption here.
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