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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gawande say happens in the third stage of a country’s health care development?
(a) Patients die at home for lack of access to health care.
(b) Patients die in the hospital.
(c) Patients return home to die in comfort.
(d) Patients die in poor houses and nursing homes.

2. What does Gawande say are the three plagues of nursing homes?
(a) Resentment, dread and indifference.
(b) Abandonment, fear and confusion.
(c) Medicalization, standardization and efficiency.
(d) Boredom, loneliness and helplessness.

3. What percentage of doctors in Nicholas Christakis’ study overestimated their patients’ survival time?
(a) 49%.
(b) 63%.
(c) 19%.
(d) 37%.

4. What is the typical requirement for a patient to enter hospice care?
(a) Chronic pain.
(b) A life expectancy under six months.
(c) Running out of private funding for a nursing home.
(d) A terminal diagnosis.

5. Where had Thomas worked before Chase Memorial?
(a) An ER.
(b) A urology unit.
(c) A family practice.
(d) A farm.

6. What does Jewel Douglas say is her lifeblood?
(a) Eating good food.
(b) Holding her husband.
(c) Holding her grandchildren.
(d) Seeing friends.

7. What does Gawande say his father’s chance of being paralyzed by surgery were?
(a) 1 in 4.
(b) 1 in 6
(c) 1 in 10.
(d) 1 in 20.

8. When did Bill Thomas take over as director of the Chase Memorial Nursing Home?
(a) 1991.
(b) 1986.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1972.

9. What other pets did Chase Memorial also eventually adopt?
(a) Horses.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Ducks.
(d) Rabbits.

10. How many people were assigned to each “pod” at the New Bridge assisted living facility?
(a) 16.
(b) 18.
(c) 12.
(d) 22.

11. What was the third place Gawande’s father wanted his ashes scattered?
(a) Germany.
(b) London.
(c) India.
(d) South Africa.

12. How much of Medicare spending goes to the 5% of patients who are in their last year of life?
(a) 25%.
(b) 15%.
(c) 33%.
(d) 40%.

13. What does Kahneman say are our two selves?
(a) Desiring and regretting.
(b) Experiencing and remembering.
(c) Planning and executing.
(d) Grieving and longing.

14. What value did Thomas espouse in running his farm?
(a) Stewardship.
(b) Efficiency.
(c) Sustainability.
(d) Self-reliance.

15. What did Gawande do with the herbs and medicine and morsels of food he took with him into the river?
(a) Offer them to the dead.
(b) Trail them after the boat.
(c) Pray over them.
(d) Mix them with his father’s ashes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Gawande say the problem of care for the sick and dying will be solved?

2. Who did Gawande’s father want to see in his final bout of wakefulness?

3. When does Gawande say developments in the field of palliative will provide cause for celebration in medical circles?

4. What does Gawande say is most important about the end of Jewel Douglas’ story?

5. How does Gawande say insurance companies respond after the Nelene Fox case found insurance companies at fault for not paying for expensive treatments?

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