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Newspaper article: People with damaged knees and hips can now undergo minimally invasive joint-replacement surgery. In this new procedure, less tissue and muscle are cut than in traditional surgery, with the goal of enabling patients to recover more quickly. Further, the cost of the surgery is roughly the same as traditional joint replacement, and patients often lower their total bills through shorter postoperative hospital stays. Nevertheless patients who wish for the best chance of minimizing recovery time often opt for traditional surgery.
Which of the following, if true, would most help to account for the patients' choice?
(A) Most hospital offer both the traditional and the new joint replacement procedures.
(B) With longer recovery times there is an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections
(C) The cost of postoperative hospital stays following traditional joint replacement surgery can be as high as the cost of the operation itself
(D) Patients who have undergone minimally invasive procedures use less pain medication than do those who have undergone traditional procedures
(E) The patients know that surgeons who have extensive experience performing a procedure are much less likely to make errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy
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Which of the following, if true, would most help to account for the patients' choice?
(A) Most hospital offer both the traditional and the new joint replacement procedures.
(B) With longer recovery times there is an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections
(C) The cost of postoperative hospital stays following traditional joint replacement surgery can be as high as the cost of the operation itself
(D) Patients who have undergone minimally invasive procedures use less pain medication than do those who have undergone traditional procedures
(E) The patients know that surgeons who have extensive experience performing a procedure are much less likely to make errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy
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Newspaper article: People with damaged knees and hips can now undergo minimally invasive joint-replacement surgery. In this new procedure, less tissue and muscle are cut than in traditional surgery, with the goal of enabling patients to recover more quickly. Further, the cost of the surgery is roughly the same as traditional joint replacement, and patients often lower their total bills through shorter postoperative hospital stays. Nevertheless patients who wish for the best chance of minimizing recovery time often opt for traditional surgery.
The passage presents a surprising scenario. A new type of surgery involves less cutting of tissue and muscle than previous surgery and thus theoretically will enable patients to recover more quickly and costs less, but people who want to minimize recovery time often still opt for the traditional type of surgery.
Which of the following, if true, would most help to account for the patients' choice?
The correct answer will do the best job of explaining "the patients' choice," which is "to opt for the traditional type of surgery."
A) Most hospital offer both the traditional and the new joint replacement procedures.
This choice indicates that, in at least one way, the two types of surgery are similar: they are both offered by most hospitals.
The fact that the two types of surgery are similar in this way would not explain why one is chosen over the other. After all, we need a difference rather than a similarity to explain why one is preferred.
Eliminate.
B) With longer recovery times there is an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections
This choice helps to explain why patients do their best to minimize recovery times: they don't want "an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections."
However, it doesn't explain why, to minimize recovery times, they choose the traditional type of surgery over the new type.
Eliminate.
C) The cost of postoperative hospital stays following traditional joint replacement surgery can be as high as the cost of the operation itself
This choice helps to explain why patients do their best to minimize recovery times. They want to minimize costs by minimizing their postoperative stays.
However, it doesn't explain why, to minimize recovery times, they choose the traditional type of surgery over the new type.
Eliminate.
D) Patients who have undergone minimally invasive procedures use less pain medication than do those who have undergone traditional procedures
This choice is a reason to choose the new type of surgery, which is "minimally invasive," over the traditional type. So, this choice would explain why people choose the new type over the traditional type, doing the opposite of what we need.
Eliminate.
E)The patients know that surgeons who have extensive experience performing a procedure are much less likely to make errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy
To choose this choice, we need to make a connection between the fact that the traditional type of surgery has been used longer than the new type and what this choice says about "extensive experience."
Common sense tells us that many, or even most, surgeons likely do not have extensive experience performing the new type of surgery and that, on the other hand, it's possible that many surgeons do have extensive experience performing the traditional type. After all, it's unlikely that many surgeons have "extensive experience" doing something "new."
Accordingly, what makes sense is that, in choosing the traditional type of surgery, people are hoping to opt for a type of surgery that their surgeons have extensive experience performing and to thus minimize their likelihood of experiencing errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy, i.e., errors that cause their recovery times to be long.
So, this choice offers a possible explanation for patients' choosing the traditional type of surgery: they believe they are maximizing their chance of minimizing their recovery times by opting for a type of surgery with which surgeons have more experience.
So, while we need to tell a bit of a story to choose this choice, since that story makes sense and since the other choices are clearly incorrect, we can safely choose this choice.
The correct answer is (E).
The passage presents a surprising scenario. A new type of surgery involves less cutting of tissue and muscle than previous surgery and thus theoretically will enable patients to recover more quickly and costs less, but people who want to minimize recovery time often still opt for the traditional type of surgery.
Which of the following, if true, would most help to account for the patients' choice?
The correct answer will do the best job of explaining "the patients' choice," which is "to opt for the traditional type of surgery."
A) Most hospital offer both the traditional and the new joint replacement procedures.
This choice indicates that, in at least one way, the two types of surgery are similar: they are both offered by most hospitals.
The fact that the two types of surgery are similar in this way would not explain why one is chosen over the other. After all, we need a difference rather than a similarity to explain why one is preferred.
Eliminate.
B) With longer recovery times there is an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections
This choice helps to explain why patients do their best to minimize recovery times: they don't want "an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections."
However, it doesn't explain why, to minimize recovery times, they choose the traditional type of surgery over the new type.
Eliminate.
C) The cost of postoperative hospital stays following traditional joint replacement surgery can be as high as the cost of the operation itself
This choice helps to explain why patients do their best to minimize recovery times. They want to minimize costs by minimizing their postoperative stays.
However, it doesn't explain why, to minimize recovery times, they choose the traditional type of surgery over the new type.
Eliminate.
D) Patients who have undergone minimally invasive procedures use less pain medication than do those who have undergone traditional procedures
This choice is a reason to choose the new type of surgery, which is "minimally invasive," over the traditional type. So, this choice would explain why people choose the new type over the traditional type, doing the opposite of what we need.
Eliminate.
E)The patients know that surgeons who have extensive experience performing a procedure are much less likely to make errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy
To choose this choice, we need to make a connection between the fact that the traditional type of surgery has been used longer than the new type and what this choice says about "extensive experience."
Common sense tells us that many, or even most, surgeons likely do not have extensive experience performing the new type of surgery and that, on the other hand, it's possible that many surgeons do have extensive experience performing the traditional type. After all, it's unlikely that many surgeons have "extensive experience" doing something "new."
Accordingly, what makes sense is that, in choosing the traditional type of surgery, people are hoping to opt for a type of surgery that their surgeons have extensive experience performing and to thus minimize their likelihood of experiencing errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy, i.e., errors that cause their recovery times to be long.
So, this choice offers a possible explanation for patients' choosing the traditional type of surgery: they believe they are maximizing their chance of minimizing their recovery times by opting for a type of surgery with which surgeons have more experience.
So, while we need to tell a bit of a story to choose this choice, since that story makes sense and since the other choices are clearly incorrect, we can safely choose this choice.
The correct answer is (E).
10 Dec 2023, 19:46
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Newspaper article: People with damaged knees and hips can now undergo minimally invasive joint-replacement surgery. In this new procedure, less tissue and muscle are cut than in traditional surgery, with the goal of enabling patients to recover more quickly. Further, the cost of the surgery is roughly the same as traditional joint replacement, and patients often lower their total bills through shorter postoperative hospital stays.
Patient's choice: Nevertheless patients who wish for the best chance of minimizing recovery time often opt for traditional surgery.
Which of the following, if true, would most help to account for the patients' choice?
A) Most hospital offer both the traditional and the new joint replacement procedures.
Not sufficient to provide reason for patient's choice for traditional surgery.
B) With longer recovery times there is an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections
The new procedure, less tissue and muscle are cut than in traditional surgery, with the goal of enabling patients to recover more quickly.
Traditional surgery has longer recovery times.
Not sufficient to provide reason for patient's choice for traditional surgery.
C) The cost of postoperative hospital stays following traditional joint replacement surgery can be as high as the cost of the operation itself
The statement also goes against the patient's choice since traditional surgery is costlier.
D) Patients who have undergone minimally invasive procedures use less pain medication than do those who have undergone traditional procedures
The statement also goes against the patient's choice since traditional surgery is more painful.
E)The patients know that surgeons who have extensive experience performing a procedure are much less likely to make errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy
There is a chance that new procedure is not completely successful and then traditional surgery is needed to correct errors which may take longer recovery time.
IMO E
Patient's choice: Nevertheless patients who wish for the best chance of minimizing recovery time often opt for traditional surgery.
Which of the following, if true, would most help to account for the patients' choice?
A) Most hospital offer both the traditional and the new joint replacement procedures.
Not sufficient to provide reason for patient's choice for traditional surgery.
B) With longer recovery times there is an increased risk of complications such as blood clots and infections
The new procedure, less tissue and muscle are cut than in traditional surgery, with the goal of enabling patients to recover more quickly.
Traditional surgery has longer recovery times.
Not sufficient to provide reason for patient's choice for traditional surgery.
C) The cost of postoperative hospital stays following traditional joint replacement surgery can be as high as the cost of the operation itself
The statement also goes against the patient's choice since traditional surgery is costlier.
D) Patients who have undergone minimally invasive procedures use less pain medication than do those who have undergone traditional procedures
The statement also goes against the patient's choice since traditional surgery is more painful.
E)The patients know that surgeons who have extensive experience performing a procedure are much less likely to make errors that can be corrected only with extensive physical therapy
There is a chance that new procedure is not completely successful and then traditional surgery is needed to correct errors which may take longer recovery time.
IMO E
