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Updated on: 01 Dec 2018, 03:17
Originally posted by Sajjad1994 on 09 Nov 2018, 09:18.
Last edited by Sajjad1994 on 01 Dec 2018, 03:17, edited 1 time in total.
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The drug Nephoprene has been proven to help certain harmful medical conditions, but it also has serious side effects. Doctors are responsible for weighing the benefits of a drug against the possible harm to the patient from side effects, and most doctors have chosen not to prescribe Nephoprene even to patients who would experience benefits.
Which of the following follows most logically from the argument?
(A) Nephoprene will not cure patients.
(B) Most doctors have determined that the side effects of Nephoprene outweigh the benefits.
(C) Patients who want to take Nephoprene are not able to obtain prescriptions for it.
(D) Not all patients with medical conditions that can be helped by Nephoprene will actually experience benefits when taking it.
(E) The doctors who decline to prescribe Nephoprene are not fulfilling their duties as doctors.
Which of the following follows most logically from the argument?
(A) Nephoprene will not cure patients.
(B) Most doctors have determined that the side effects of Nephoprene outweigh the benefits.
(C) Patients who want to take Nephoprene are not able to obtain prescriptions for it.
(D) Not all patients with medical conditions that can be helped by Nephoprene will actually experience benefits when taking it.
(E) The doctors who decline to prescribe Nephoprene are not fulfilling their duties as doctors.
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- N is useful in certain medical conditions but has serious side effects.
- Doctors are responsible to weight benefits against side effects.
- Most doctors have NOT given it to even those patients who will experience benefits.
What will follow?
(A) Nephoprene will not cure patients.
No discussion on what can "cure" patients and when do we say they are "cured".
(B) Most doctors have determined that the side effects of Nephoprene outweigh the benefits.
Correct. N has not been prescribed even when it will have benefits. It means the harmful effects outweigh the benefits.
(C) Patients who want to take Nephoprene are not able to obtain prescriptions for it.
We don't know who all can prescribe N. Also, some doctors may still prescribe it.
(D) Not all patients with medical conditions that can be helped by Nephoprene will actually experience benefits when taking it.
This tells us that not all patients with related medical conditions will experience benefits. This is not implied because the argument does not tell us how many people with related medical conditions will be benefitted. Will it benefit all or some, we don't know so this is not implied.
Our argument focusses on those patients whom it will benefit. The point is that doctors are not prescribing it to even those who will benefit.
(E) The doctors who decline to prescribe Nephoprene are not fulfilling their duties as doctors.
Cannot infer. Perhaps they are actually fulfilling their duties.
Answer (B)
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
(B) Most doctors have determined that the side effects of Nephoprene outweigh the benefits:
The wording of the question stem indicates that the answer choices contain an argument, or conclusion. If the answer choices contain a conclusion, then this is an Inference question. On Inference questions, your task is to find something that must be true according to the information given in the argument.
If doctors are responsible for weighing the benefits against the side effects, and most decide not to prescribe Nephoprene, these doctors must have decided that the benefits were not worth the side effects. Answer (B) is a match.
Choice (A) is a good trap: If Nephoprene did cure patients, then wouldn’t the doctors prescribe it even if it had bad side effects? Not necessarily.
What if the side effect is to cause a heart attack that may kill the patient?
Answer (C) may or may not be true; the argument says only that most doctors don’t prescribe Nephoprene.
Answers (D) and (E) are probably true about drugs in general, but this particular argument does not provide evidence to support either answer.
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