A physician has a duty

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal3% picked this

   All persons have a right to accept or reject any medical procedures proposed

   This answer just deals with what a patient's rights would be if they were fully informed. But this answer doesn't do anything to force a winner in the head to head battle of Physician's Duty vs. Patient's Right

   3%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal5% picked this

   Some actions are right independently of the consequences that

   An answer this weak would almost never be correct on Sufficient Assumption, where the answer needs to 100% guarantee the truth of the conclusion. This answer doesn't do anything to force a winner in the head to head battle of Physician's Duty vs. Patient's Right

   5%
3. C

   Unrelated to Goal18% picked this

   Because only persons have rights, objects do not

   We don't care about whether or not objects have rights. We care about who should win in a head to head battle of Physician's Duty vs. Patient's Right And this answer doesn't give us any way to crown "Patient's Right" the winner.

   18%
4. D

   Correct68% picked this

   A person’s basic rights should never

   Why this is right

   This answer forces us to pick a winner in the head to head battle of Physician's Duty vs. Patient's Right Since we were told that the Patient's Right is a basic right, if a basic right should never be violated, then we have proven the conclusion that "when physician's duty conflicts with patient's right, the patient's right should prevail (should never be violated)".

   Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   68%
5. E

   Too Weak6% picked this

   In medicine, the patient’s basic right to information is stronger than

   Ideas like "usually, tends to, most, generally" are medium-strong, but they will almost always be wrong on Sufficient Assumption because the correct answer on Sufficient Assumption has to guarantee the conclusion 100%, and words of this strength usually only prove that something is probable / likely. This seems to strengthen somewhat, since we know that the patient's right to be fully informed is a basic right. According to this answer choice, that right is stronger than most other rights. But we're trying to judge a head to head between Physician's Duty and Patient's Right. This answer doesn't tell us anything about whether a patient's basic right to information is stronger than a physician's duty.

   6%