LSAT 110 – Section 3 – Question 07

LSAT 110 - Section 3 - Question 07

June 2001

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PT110 S3 Q07
+LR
Point at issue: disagree +Disagr
Causal Reasoning +CausR
Net Effect +NetEff
A
0%
157
B
1%
153
C
0%
150
D
2%
159
E
96%
166
128
136
145
 +Easier 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.

Speaker 1 Summary
Dr. Jones claims that telemedicine will improve care for rural patients. How so? Because it will allow far-away specialists to consult on rural patients’ conditions. This will give rural patients access to additional sources of advice, thus improving their care.

Speaker 2 Summary
Dr. Carabella argues that telemedicine will actually lower the quality of care for both rural and urban patients. This will happen because small hospitals will cut costs by replacing in-person doctors with remote care. Because of this, fewer patients will receive traditional care. Thus, it will become rare that patients receive personalized care. (We can infer that this means a lower quality of care.)

Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The doctors disagree on whether telemedicine will ultimately raise or lower the quality of care for rural patients.

A
whether medical specialists in general offer better advice than rural physicians
Neither doctor makes a claim about whether specialists give better advice than rural physicians. Even Dr. Jones only discusses specialists as an additional source of advice, not necessarily a better source. Dr. Carabella just doesn’t mention specialists.
B
whether telemedicine technology will be installed only in rural hospitals and rural medical centers
Neither doctor expresses an opinion about telemedicine being limited to rural healthcare settings. For one, Dr. Jones makes a limited argument about the benefits of telemedicine for rural patients, but doesn’t discount the possibility of urban telemedicine as well.
C
whether telemedicine is likely to be widely adopted in rural areas in future years
Neither doctor directly talks about how likely telemedicine is to be widely adopted anywhere over any length of time. Their discussion is focused on the predicted effects of telemedicine, not its future popularity.
D
whether the patients who most need the advice of medical specialists are likely to receive it through telemedicine
Neither doctor talks about patients who most need specialists’ advice. Dr. Jones discusses rural patients in general, and Dr. Carabella throws an even wider net when talking about both rural and urban patients. Neither goes into this specific of a category.
E
whether the technology of telemedicine will benefit rural patients in the long run
Dr. Jones thinks that telemedicine will benefit rural patients by improving access to specialists, while Dr. Carabella thinks that telemedicine will ultimately harm rural patients through a general decline in the quality of care. This is the point of disagreement.

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