October 1994 LSAT Section 4 Question 13

Police published a "wanted" poster for a criminal fugitive in a medical journal, because the fugitive was known to ha...

AllisonJ on June 9, 2021

Can this be explained

In reading this I understood the stimulus, but I had a hard time with the question and understand what each answer choice was exactly stating so I was wounding if this could be explained further.

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Emil-Kunkin on August 12 at 02:04AM

We are looking to find an answer choice that tells us that it is not ethical under the circumstances for a doctor to report the man to police, without contradicting anything in the passage. The right answer would therefore be something that would enable us to say "therefore given what we know, it is not ethical."

C does exactly this; it tells us it is never permissible for doctors to report to police, unless in the case of gunshot wounds.