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(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians can help their patients grow to trust them.

IMO D.
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(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians can help their patients grow to trust them

Pronouns them and there clearly refer back to the physicians.

Meaning remains intact.
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During her internship at the hospital, Dr. Paulson observed that through careful examination, competent diagnosing and successful treatment, patients can grow to trust their physicians.


(A) diagnosing and successful treatment, patients can grow to trust their physicians

(B) diagnosis and treatment, if successful, can lead patients to trust their physicians

(C) and successful diagnosing and treatment, physicians can develop trust in their patients

(D) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians can help their patients grow to trust them

(E) diagnosis and successful treatment, physicians can develop in their patients growing trust





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The correct answer is (D).

The words examination, diagnosing, and treatment are not all grammatically parallel. One solution is to replace diagnosing with diagnosis. Also, the first clause seems to refer nonsensically to patients because of this word’s proximity to the clause. The solution is to reconstruct the sentence so that the clause is closer to physicians than to patients. Choice (D) is the only alternative that corrects both problems without creating any new ones.
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