lsat 5-2-14

14. Pamela: Physicians training for a medical specialty serve as resident staff physicians in hospitals. They work such long hours – up to 36 consecutive hours – that fatigue impairs their ability to make the best medical decisions during the final portion of their shifts.

Quincy: Thousands of physicians now practicing have been trained according to the same regimen, and records show they generally made good medical decisions during their training periods. Why should what has worked in the past be changed now?

Which one of the following, if true, is the most effective counter Pamela might make to Quincy’s argument?

(A) The basic responsibilities of resident staff physicians in hospitals have not changed substantially over the past few decades.

(B) Because medical reimbursement policies now pay for less recuperation time in hospitals, patients in hospitals are, on the average, more seriously ill during their stay than in the past.

(C) It is important that emergency-room patients receive continuity of physician care, insofar as possible, over the critical period after admission, generally 24 hours.

(D) The load of work on resident physicians-in-training varies according to the medical specialty for which each is being trained.

(E) The training of physicians should include observation and recognition of the signs indicating a hospitalized patient’s progress or decline over a period of at least 36 hours.
首先确认一下问题的意图：问的是Pamela 会用那个事实来counter Quincy’s

这题可以理解为削弱题，即削弱P的结论。p的结论是没有必要改变工作时间，它的前提是以前的记录表明医生可以工作的很好。选项B表明现在的重病号多了，所以要求医生更多的精力，反过来就是说情况变了，过去的纪录不适用了。所以前提有缺陷。所以选b,那么e说的也是由于医生至少都要观察病人36小时，所以情况变了，为什么不对

fatigue impairs their ability to make the best medical decisions during the final portion of their shifts.

p 的观点是会损害BEST MEDICAL DECISIONS.

而Q的观点是那些医生都受过训练，应该没问题。

Questions like this,

you should pay more attn to WHAT HAVE CHANGED.

Pure descriptions like (e) is just a misleading choice LSAC put on there to waste your time.

Please eliminate it as soon as u read it

14. Pamela: (premise) Physicians training for a medical specialty serve as resident staff physicians in hospitals. They work such long hours – up to 36 consecutive hours – that(conclusion) fatigue impairs their ability to make the best medical decisions during the final portion of their shifts.

Quincy: (premise)Thousands of physicians now practicing have been trained according to the same regimen, and records show they generally made good medical decisions during their training periods. (conclusion: the stuff worked in the past should not changed)Why should what has worked in the past be changed now?

Which one of the following, if true, is the most effective counter Pamela might make to Quincy’s argument?

This is a two person conversation type of question, it asks you to weaken one person’s argument.

(A) The basic responsibilities of resident staff physicians in hospitals have not changed substantially over the past few decades.

This strengthen Quincy’s argument. The right answer should weaken it.

(B) Because medical reimbursement policies now pay for less recuperation time in hospitals, patients in hospitals are, on the average, more seriously ill during their stay than in the past.

Bingo, this supports Pamela that Physician in training can not make the best medical decision during the final portion of their shift because their job is getting harder.

(C) It is important that emergency-room patients receive continuity of physician care, insofar as possible, over the critical period after admission, generally 24 hours.
this is about emergency-room patients, out of the scope.

(D) The load of work on resident physicians-in-training varies according to the medical specialty for which each is being trained.
out of scope, we are not talking about the load of work on resident in training here.

(E) The training of physicians should include observation and recognition of the signs indicating a hospitalized patient’s progress or decline over a period of at least 36 hours.

This strengthen quincy’s argument, not weaken it.

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