求助LSAT argument一题，苦思不得其解

kbsred

not that complicate.
this is just about 2 duties in two reasons:
doctor's duty and medical staff's duty
A) new law requests both duties to be done.

xzhou25

12.   “Though
they soon will, patients should not have a legal right to see their
medical records. As a doctor, I see two reasons for this. First, giving
them access will be time-wasting because it will significantly reduce
the amount of time that medical staff can spend on more important
duties, by forcing them to retrieve and return files. Second, if my
experience is anything to go by, no patients are going to ask for
access to their records anyway.”

Which one of the following, if true, establishes that the doctor’s second reason does not cancel out the first?

(A)
The new law will require that doctors, when seeing a patient in their
office, must be ready to produce the patient’s records immediately, not
just ready to retrieve them.

(B) The task of retrieving and returning files would fall to the lowest-paid member of a doctor’s office staff.

(C)
Any patients who asked to see their medical records would also insist
on having details they did not understand explained to them.

(D)
The new law does not rule out that doctors may charge patients for
extra expenses incurred specifically in order to comply with the new
law.

(E)
Some doctors have all allowing their patients access to their medical
records, but those doctors’ patients took no advantage of this policy.

This is truly a great abstract question and its prolly gonna be one of the hardest LR questions you'll ever see on the test. First, you'd have to identify the foundamental conflict between reason one and reason two. Reason one states that it is going to be a waste of time for doctors to retrieve the documents while reason two says there won't be anyone ask for the records. Well, if no one is going to ask for the records, there will not be any waste of time right? Therefore, the two reasons conflict each other. Lets look at choice A now, if the doctors need to get the medical records ready all the time, meaning they can't just go retrieve it upon request, then the doctors will have to "waste time". The conflict is then solved and both reasons will be valid.

clifford_a

I agree with  jameshoo and  xzhou25

excellent response.

kbsred

Well, I don't agree.
In the test, you don't have time to do so complicate thinking.
If you find out the assumption for the first reason, then ..., you will take more than 2 minutes whatsoever.

It is simple. In the question stem, the reason 2 cancels out reason 1, if you ignore the word reason, it is actually a simple argument, with reason 1 as premise and reason 2 as conclusion. You will easily see they are talking about 2 different issues, logically wrong. reason 1 is about medical stuff's duty, reason 2 is about doctor, nobody asking him, so it is strengthen question. the answer must talk about the doctor and the duty.

blueflower86

这道题目我是昨天晚上遇到的：）

我认为E选项，虽然是cancel out reason1, but doesn't establish the Reason2.

A选项，准备好病人的记录。那么就是医生遵照这个规定，那么病人不用提出要求也可以看到病例。

而law本身是对reason1的反对。

我是这么理解而选出A的。