Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT2 S4 Q12 Explanation

“Though they soon will, patients should not

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TopicsParadox

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Stimulus

“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 no patients are going to ask for access to their records anyway.”

What this question is testing

Paradox

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
12.

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

Answer choices

  1. Correct66% picked this

    The new law will require that doctors, when seeing a patient in their office, must be ready to produce the patient’s records immediately,

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

  2. Trap2% picked this

    The task of retrieving and returning files would fall to the lowest-paid member of a

  3. Trap13% picked this

    Any patients who asked to see their medical records would also insist on having details they did not

  4. Trap6% picked this

    The new law does not rule out that doctors may charge patients for extra expenses incurred specifically in order to

  5. Trap14% picked this

    Some doctors have all along had a policy of allowing their patients access to their medical records, but those doctors’ patients took

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