Patient: Pharmacists maintain that doctors should not be permitted to sell the medicine that they prescribe because doctors would then be tempted to prescribe unnecessary medicines in order to earn extra income. But pharmacists have a financial interest in having a monopoly on the sale of prescription medicines, so their objection to the sale of medicines by doctors cannot be taken seriously. The patient's argument proceeds by ['attempting to discredit a position by questioning the motives of the proponents of that position', 'rejecting a questionable position on the grounds that the general public does not support that position', "pointing out an unstated assumption on which the pharmacists' argument relies and then refuting it", 'asserting that pharmacists lack the appropriate knowledge to have informed opinions on the subject under discussion']