LR Question 14 Explanation
QUESTION TEXT: Ethicist: Both ASA and TPA are clot-dissolving…
QUESTION TYPE: Main Conclusion
CONCLUSION: The financial savings involved in using ASA over TPA must be weighed against the emotional considerations.
REASONING: TPA only saves at most two more lives out of every fifty compared to ASA. TPA is more expensive. But the relatives of the patients that die simply because they had the less expensive medicine will be particularly sad.
ANALYSIS: The main conclusion is that we must consider emotional impact as well as finances.
Three of the wrong answers are true, but not the main point. Watch out for that on main conclusion/main point questions.
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- This may not even be true. There could be some situation where ASA is the superior choice.
- This is true but it isn’t the main point.
- CORRECT. We also have to consider families’ grief that they lost a loved one because of cost.
- This is true but not the main point.
- This is true but not the main point.
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Answer choice C does not seem so accurate to me. The conclusion should be that the financial savings of ASA over TPA must be weighed againt greivong relatives. Answer choice C just says that it can’t just be weighed against additional lives saved, which to me only sounds like the implication of what the actual main conclusion should be.
C is just the conclusion in a negative form.
Conclusion: We must weight the financial savings against other considerations.
Answer C: We can’t *only* weigh the financial savings of the medication
E.g. it’s like if I say “We need to both exercise and read”. I also mean “we can’t only read.”
Note: This is an old comment but I wanted to clarify the point.