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正确答案：A
解析：细节题。将第二段的最后一句和第三段第一句连起来看“Physicians-frustrated by their inability to cure the disease and fearing loss of hope in the patient…．Meanwhile，the kind of palliative care provided in hospices is taught derogatorily to medical students as a treatment of last resort．”正是由于“pal-liative care”不能将病人治愈才被轻视，否则就不必去追求大胆且昂贵的治疗方法。故正确答案为A。选项B和C明显错误，选项D中去掉“greater”更为合适，因为“palliative care”本身之前并未受到重视，不能说需要“得到更大的重视”。