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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?
Options
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
Solution
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.
