Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: A physician who is too thorough in conducting a medical checkup

A physician who is too thorough in conducting a medical checkup is likely to subject the patient to the discomfort and expense of unnecessary tests. One who is not thorough enough is likely to miss some serious problem and therefore give the patient a false sense of security. It is difficult for physicians to judge exactly how thorough they should be. Therefore, it is generally unwise for patients to have medical checkups when they do not feel ill.

Which one of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument in the passage?

(A) Some serious diseases in their early stages have symptoms that physicians can readily detect. - CORRECT. If such is a case then patients are not wrong for seeking medical checkups because serious disease would get detected, if it's there.
(B) Under the pressure of reduced reimbursements, physicians have been reducing the average amount of time they spend on each medical checkup. - WRONG.
(C)[color=#ed1c24] Patients not medically trained
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Statistics : Posted by unraveled • on 06 Oct 2017, 01:42 • Replies 4 • Views 6611

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