Which of the following most logically completes the passage?
Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal; consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitis almost always have their appendix removed. The appropriate surgery is low-risk but performed unnecessarily in about 20 percent of all cases. A newly developed internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producing two misdiagnoses for every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using this test, doctors can largely avoid unnecessary removals of the appendix without, however, performing any fewer necessary ones than before, since ______.
Appendicitis Which of the following most logically completes the passage? Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) is potentially fatal;consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggesting appendicitisalmost have their appendix removed. The appropriate surgery is low-riskbut performed unnecessarily in about 20 percent of all cases. A newlydeveloped internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producingtwo misdiagnoses for every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using thistest, doctors can largely avoid unnecessary removals of the appendixwithout, however, performing any fewer necessary ones than before,since .
A. the patients who are correctly diagnosed with this test as nothaving appendicitis invariably have medical conditions that are muchless serious than appendicitis B. the misdiagnoses produced by this test are always instances ofattributing appendicitis to someone who does not, in fact, have it C. all of the patients who are diagnosed with this test as having appendicitis do, in fact,have appendicitis D. every patient who is diagnosed with this test as having appendicitishas more than one of the symptoms generally associated with appendicitis E. the only patients who are misdiagnosed using this test are patientswho lack one or more of the symptoms that are generally associated withappendicitis