Though they soon will

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Robinmrtha: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 91; Joined: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:53 pm; Thanked: 11 times

by Robinmrtha » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:00 am

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.┬б┬▒

Which one of the following, if true, establishes that the doctor┬б┬пs 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┬б┬пs 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┬б┬пs 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┬б┬п patients took no advantage of this policy.

Source: Beat The GMAT — Critical Reasoning | Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:00 am

Wajiha: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 10; Joined: Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:09 pm

by Wajiha » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:35 am

IMO C
I think!!

raghavsarathy: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 166; Joined: Sat Apr 18, 2009 10:41 pm; Thanked: 9 times; GMAT Score:770

by raghavsarathy » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:18 am

reason 1 - Doctors wasting time in retreiving files
reason 2 - Patients would not ask for the records anyways

We need a expln which says that even if the patients do not ask for their records , the doctors would spend time in searching and retreiving the records.

So why would the doctors do such a thing. 2 possible reasons
1. Either they have been manadated by the law to do so (Close to option A)

2. They have a monetary benifit by doing so (option D)

But would patients be willing to pay money and get this service. Maybe not.

Hence Option A

OA please ?? Really curious

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Re: Though they soon will

by GMAT Verbal Coach » Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:57 am

Robinmrtha wrote: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.┬б┬▒

Which one of the following, if true, establishes that the doctor┬б┬пs 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┬б┬пs 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┬б┬пs 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┬б┬п patients took no advantage of this policy.

This question does not seem representative of what you'd face on the actual exam. Could you please share the source?

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mehravikas: Legendary Member; Posts: 1161; Joined: Mon May 12, 2008 2:52 amFollowed by: 1 member; Location: Sydney; Thanked: 23 times

by mehravikas » Tue Jun 30, 2009 1:49 pm

IMO - A

official answer and source please.

Kenen750: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 21; Joined: Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:09 am

by Kenen750 » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:26 pm

It should be "A".

Robinmrtha: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 91; Joined: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:53 pm; Thanked: 11 times

by Robinmrtha » Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:42 pm

OA is A
Please explain...

aspirant_gmat: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 39; Joined: Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:55 am; Location: Hull, UK; Thanked: 1 times

by aspirant_gmat » Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:55 pm

I tried to reason it out using POE(btw, raghavsarathy has already explained it beautifully above)
A- A suggests that doctors will anyhow spend some time on producing records for every patient they see in their office.

So, even if patients don’t ask for their records (Second reason), doctors will spend some time producing patient’s records (First reason). The second reason doesn’t cancel out the first one here, so, this could be a possible justification.

B- Irrelevant – It doesn’t really matter who does the work.
C- Irrelevant- because this actually goes against the second reason itself.
D- Irrelevant- the argument suggests the main concern is time not money.
E- This actually helps the second reason to cancel out the first one.

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by ketkoag » Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:20 am

please post the source as i feel that this question is weird from GMAT point of view..

madhur_ahuja: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 435; Joined: Sat May 02, 2009 3:55 am; Thanked: 17 times

by madhur_ahuja » Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:11 am

ketkoag wrote:please post the source as i feel that this question is weird from GMAT point of view..

I am sure the source is then 1000 CR since it contains some LSAT problems.

micheal_kr: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 57; Joined: Tue Aug 05, 2014 3:07 am

by micheal_kr » Sun May 15, 2016 10:55 pm

I would go with option A as the correct option

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