LSAT 110 – Section 3 – Question 08

LSAT 110 - Section 3 - Question 08

June 2001

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PT110 S3 Q08
+LR
Method of reasoning or descriptive +Method
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Net Effect +NetEff
A
3%
162
B
97%
166
C
0%
154
D
0%
E
0%
146
120
120
128
 +Easiest 145.976 +SubsectionMedium

Dr. Jones: The new technology dubbed “telemedicine” will provide sustained improvement in at least rural patient care since it allows rural physicians to televise medical examinations to specialists who live at great distances—specialists who will thus be able to provide advice the rural patient would otherwise not receive.

Dr. Carabella: Not so. Telemedicine might help rural patient care initially. However, small hospitals will soon realize that they can minimize expenses by replacing physicians with technicians who can use telemedicine to transmit examinations to large medical centers, resulting in fewer patients being able to receive traditional, direct medical examinations. Eventually, it will be the rare individual who ever gets truly personal attention. Hence, rural as well as urban patient care will suffer.

Summarize Argument: Phenomenon-Hypothesis
In response to Dr. Jones’s claim that telemedicine will improve rural patient care, Dr. Carabella concludes this is not the case. As evidence, she points out that small hospitals will replace physicians with telemedicine technicians, which will cause fewer patients to receive direct examinations. As a result, rural and urban patient care will suffer.

Describe Method of Reasoning
Dr. Carabella counters the position held by Dr. Jones. She does this by describing a cause-and-effect relationship of what would happen if rural patient care were to adopt telemedicine. Introducing telemedicine would cause small hospitals to replace physicians, which would cause fewer patients to receive direct examinations and in turn cause patient care to suffer.

A
listing a set of considerations to show that a prescribed treatment that seems to be benefiting a patient in fact harms that patient
Dr. Carabella does not address the topic of prescribed treatment. She only hypothesizes the effects of introducing telemedicine technology.
B
describing the application of the technology discussed by Dr. Jones as one step that initiates a process that leads to an undesirable end
The undesirable end is Dr. Carabella’s claim that rural and urban patient care will suffer. The process is the cause-and-effect Dr. Carabella describes as a result of implementing telemedicine.
C
citing evidence that Dr. Jones lacks the professional training to judge the case at issue
Dr. Carabella does not address Dr. Jones’s medical training. Dr. Carabella addresses Dr. Jones’s argument directly.
D
invoking medical statistics that cast doubt on the premises used in Dr. Jones’s argument
Dr. Carabella does not mention any medical statistics. Her counter to Dr. Jones is made generally.
E
providing grounds for dismissing Dr. Jones’s interpretation of a key term in medical technology
Dr. Carabella does not argue that Dr. Jones misinterpreted a key term. In fact, it is implied that Dr. Carabella and Dr. Jones agree what telemedicine is.

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