PrepTest 118, Section 2, Question 9
The moral precepts embodied in the Hippocratic oath,(437 more words not shown)
The passage cites which one(21 more words not shown)
- Acreation of a(9 more words not shown)
- Bconstant improvement and(4 more words not shown)
- Cprovision of medical(9 more words not shown)
- Dphysician action for(4 more words not shown)
- Eobservance of established(10 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
This asks for the specific value said to be compatible with most reformers' purposes. The second paragraph identifies it directly: “the core value of beneficence.” In ordinary language, that's acting for the patient's benefit.
Working the answers
- A
The opening does describe a community across times and cultures. But that isn't the value the writer identifies as compatible with most reformers' purposes. A true detail still has to answer this question.
- B
Advancing medical science isn't the value identified in that sentence.
- C
Nothing here establishes a promise to provide care regardless of ability to pay.
- DCorrect
Acting for patients' benefit is beneficence. The sentence explicitly says that this core value is compatible with the goals of most reformers (paragraph 2).
- E
The first paragraph describes rules that once seemed immune to challenges. The later agreement with reformers concerns benefiting patients, not keeping every established rule unchanged.
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