The medical professor's thesis - hardly new, but rarely __________ by a faculty member of his distinction -  is that patients are more than the sum of the symptoms and systems.

A. Discounted

B. Ignored

C. Subverted

D. Underestimated

E. Espoused

저는 A라고 생각했거든요... 왜냐면  'patients are more than the sum of the symptoms and systems.' 는 사실인 것 같아서, thesis 는 'now new, yet not discredited by people' 이라고 생각했어요.. 

근데 답이 왜 E 인지 가르쳐 주실분 ㅜㅜ 있나요