PrepTest 32, Section 3, Question 19
Editorial: Medical schools spend one hour teaching preventive medicine for every ten hours spent teaching curative medicine, even though doctors' use of the techniques of preventive medicine cuts down medical costs greatly. Therefore, if their goal is to make medicine more cost-effective, medical schools spend insufficient time teaching preventive medicine.
Editorial: Medical schools spend one hour teaching preventive medicine for every ten hours spent teaching curative medicine, even though doctors' use of the techniques of preventive medicine cuts down medical costs greatly. Therefore, if their goal is to make medicine more cost-effective, medical schools spend insufficient time teaching preventive medicine.
Editorial: Medical schools spend one hour teaching preventive medicine for every ten hours spent teaching curative medicine, even though doctors' use of the techniques of preventive medicine cuts down medical costs greatly. Therefore, if their goal is to make medicine more cost-effective, medical schools spend insufficient time teaching preventive medicine.
Editorial: Medical schools spend one hour teaching preventive medicine for every ten hours spent teaching curative medicine, even though doctors' use of the techniques of preventive medicine cuts down medical costs greatly. Therefore, if their goal is to make medicine more cost-effective, medical schools spend insufficient time teaching preventive medicine.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the editorial's argument depends?
Preventive medicine makes use of technologies that are lower in initial cost than the technologies used within the practice of curative medicine.
Every hour devoted to the teaching of preventive medicine reduces medical costs by 10 percent or more.
Medical schools could increase their total number of teaching hours.
Improvements in doctors' use of the techniques of curative medicine would only increase overall medical costs.
The time required to teach preventive medicine thoroughly is greater than one hour for every ten that are now spent teaching curative medicine.
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