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Answer C seems imprecise by LSAT standards. "People who do not die of one cause may soon die of another cause". When I tied my shoes this morning I didn't die and yes I may die soon I suppose but it doesn't say anything about tying my shoes. It seems like extrapolating "cause" to mean "the condition that brought them to the hospital" would be an assumption in itself. Also "soon" isn't well defined. It isn't really saying anything at all. Yeah if I don't die of something now I might die of something else later. But what of it? I dont think the researcher would deny that notion. If taken literally it is obviously true and doesn't necessarily have anything at all to do with disease or hospitalization for that matter.
To me it looks like answer choice A is more precisely related to the passage and does reflect a flaw in the argument although maybe not directly.
What's the flaw in my reasoning?
Thanks.
Well, you've hit on exactly the point!
Saying "I tied my shoes and didn't die, so as long as I tie my shoes I won't die" would be essentially the same as this argument. The argument says "If they hadn't died of iatrogenic disease, they wouldn't have died at all." That's dumb, and it overlooks the fact that people who don't die of one disease (in this case, iatrogenic) might die later that year of something else. In other words, (C) points out that the Researcher has assumed that if we keep them from dying of iatrogenic disease this year, we'll keep them of dying this year altogether.
(A) is incorrect, because the argument hasn't made any claim whatsoever about preventing noniatrogenic diseases.