Question

Many very effective prescription drugs are available to patients on a "one time only" basis. Suspicious of drug abuse, physicians will not renew a prescription for a medicine that has worked effectively for a patient. This practice denies a patient her right to health.

Which one of the following is a basic assumption made by the author?

विकल्प

• A new type of medicine is likely to be more expensive

• Physicians are not concerned with a patient's health

• Most physicians prescribe inadequate amounts of medicine

• Patients are liable to suffer the same ailment repeatedly

Answer 1

Patients are liable to suffer the same ailment repeatedly

Explanation:

If physicians will not renew a prescription for a medicine that has worked effectively for a patient, then the patients are liable to suffer the same ailment repeatedly.