【MD每日一问】LR 2#

玛莎丁丁 · 发表于 2012-4-4 10:14:34

Pamela:

hysicians 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 the 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 average, more seriously ill during their stays than in the past.
(C) It is important that emergency-room patients receive continuity of physicians 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.

A little bit confused...which one do you think is the best choice?

wli18 · 发表于 2012-4-4 11:20:51

My response is E. I dont know if its correct.

simonshen · 发表于 2012-4-4 13:32:26

你说的感觉confused是对题目意思还是啥的confuse呢？
这题的话要我选是选B。
因为Quincy最有力的论据是，这套制度过去一直有效，所以现在也没必要改。
针对这一论据，B进行了有力的驳斥。因为现在的情况跟过去发生了变化，现在住院的病人总体比过去都病得严重了，因此过去一直适用的方式很可能因为这一新的情况导致不适用了。

玛莎丁丁 · 发表于 2012-4-4 15:34:23

答案是B
我疑惑的是两人的争论焦点在whether the physicians could make medical decisions as well as they did it the training period. （B）虽然在一定程度上解释了why what has worked in the past is changed now，但是似乎引入的内容离题干有点远。。。（如果有个选项说the working load and strength of the physicians are dramatically increased compared to what they had in training period as a result of the inadquecy of medical resource，我觉得就很satisfying了。。。）其他几个选项也不是很satisfying，所以蛮confused的说。

多问一句哈，Justification类和solve the paradox类最大的区别能否理解为：
题干中信息不完整，但不矛盾 vs 题干中信息相互矛盾（欢迎指正与补充~）

simonshen · 发表于 2012-4-4 16:04:37

呵呵，不好意思，我做LSAT因为都是自学，所以都是凭common sense的理解，没有在理论上总结过什么justification类和solve the paradox类的区别之类的问题，所以无法回答你的第二个问题。
你说的这个疑惑的话，我觉得是它题目中间在逻辑上跳跃了一步。题目里说因为现在的病人普遍比以前病得更重，因此隐含的就是医生的责任更重大了，要做的治疗护理工作的work load就自然比以前重了。加上这个中间推导的步骤就应该能跟你说的对上了。

玛莎丁丁 · 发表于 2012-4-4 16:54:06

我也在自学哈但最近除了做题也在看LR bible的一些总结
谢啦！你在版上很活跃的说~

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