Because most hospitals suffer a chronic undersupply of physicians, patients must sometimes wait hours in the emergency room to see a doctor. Nurses should therefore perform initial examinations in hospital emergency rooms to determine which patients merit immediate treatment and which can wait until the emergency physicians have more time to see them.
Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument above is based?
The conclusion is that nurses should examine patients to determine which
deserve to be seen first by the doctors. The basis for this claim is that hospitals
lack adequate numbers of physicians.
(A) The idea of having nurses make the initial examination does not depend on
increasing the medical staff.
(B) The main premise for the conclusion was that patients ended up waiting due
to an undersupply of doctors. There weren't enough doctors to perform the initial
examination. If the doctors perform the initial examinations there will be no time
saved.
(C) The conclusions rests on whether or not the nurses would be able to perform
the examinations, not on what the result of them doing the examinations would
be.
(D) The hospitals don't need to be fully staffed with nurses for the nurses to
perform the initial examination.
(E) CORRECT. This argument is valid only if we assume that nurses are
competent to determine which patients merit immediate treatment.
The correct answer is E.
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