Critical Reasoning

When selecting a specialist for any major medical procedure, such as open-heart
surgery, the patient should take care to choose the specialist who has performed
that procedure the greatest number of times. This is because patients facing major
medical procedures should not have to concern themselves with whether or not the
selected surgeon is adequately skilled.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument relies?

A. The specialist who has performed a medical procedure the greatest number
of times has better-than-average faculty with that procedure

B. If a patient experiences anxiety prior to undergoing a certain medical
procedure, he or she is likely to successfully recover from that procedure

C. Most patients do not take care to select specialists on the basis of the
specialist's experience with the medical procedure involved

D. Patients should disregard the recommendations of their regular physicians
when deciding which specialist to select for an unusual medical procedure

E. Only the specialist who has performed a specific medical procedure the
greatest number of times is capable of carrying out that procedure successfully.


Any explanations on how to eliminate E in favor of
[spoiler]A?[/spoiler]

The concern is whether the selected surgeon is adequately skilled or not and not whether the procedure will be a success or a failure.

So we can eliminate E and choose A.

What's the OA?

First, I consider A contender. E is the most typical wrong answer bcauz it is too extreme. Beside, the argument do not mention to the success of surgery. Negate E also do not affect anything in the argument.

IMO A
E looka extreme -- can assumptions be extreme?