PrepTest 88, Section 2, Question 8
Editorial: If current trends continue, obesity will soon be the leading cause of preventable illness in our country. Yet a recent survey found that 45 percent of doctors said they did not feel qualified to advise their patients about weight-related issues. Clearly, therefore, doctors need more training in the treatment of obesity.
Editorial: If current trends continue, obesity will soon be the leading cause of preventable illness in our country. Yet a recent survey found that 45 percent of doctors said they did not feel qualified to advise their patients about weight-related issues. Clearly, therefore, doctors need more training in the treatment of obesity.
Editorial: If current trends continue, obesity will soon be the leading cause of preventable illness in our country. Yet a recent survey found that 45 percent of doctors said they did not feel qualified to advise their patients about weight-related issues. Clearly, therefore, doctors need more training in the treatment of obesity.
Editorial: If current trends continue, obesity will soon be the leading cause of preventable illness in our country. Yet a recent survey found that 45 percent of doctors said they did not feel qualified to advise their patients about weight-related issues. Clearly, therefore, doctors need more training in the treatment of obesity.
Which one of the following principles, if valid, most helps to justify the editor's argument?
Doctors should not be trained to treat a condition unless there exist effective treatments for that condition.
Changes in the way that doctors are trained are warranted only if there are changes in the treatment options.
Doctors do more good when they treat their patients' unpreventable illnesses than when they counsel them about preventable ones.
Doctors should focus their efforts on the health conditions that they are able to treat most effectively.
Doctors should be adequately trained to treat the underlying causes of preventable illness.
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