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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Gawande say changed Bill Thomas’ life to raise his expectations?
2. What argument does Gawande give for allowing people to die with prescription drugs?
3. What was Thomas’ first project when he arrived at Chase?
4. What does Gawande say is the priority for hospice care?
5. How does Gawande characterize Jewel Douglas’ temperament in the depths of treatment?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Gawande characterize his daughter’s piano teacher Peg Bachelder’s final days?
2. What effect did Thomas’ changes have on the residents?
3. In the metaphor of death as the enemy, which general’s philosophy does Gawande say patients should want to emulate?
4. How does Gawande say that end-of-life care costs affect the American medical system?
5. How does Gawande describe what the real job of people in medicine should be?
6. How does Gawande characterize his faith in his people’s religion, and how does he describe his participation in the Hindu ritual for dispersing his father’s remains?
7. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?
8. What are the three stages Gawande describes in medical development countries go through?
9. What does Sara Monopoli’s story illustrate?
10. What was Bill Thomas’ experience prior to starting as the director at the Chase Memorial Nursing Home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an evaluative review of Being Mortal. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 2
What health care proposals currently in the political discourse are most likely to provide for a good death for the greatest number of people? Who is proposing that legislation, and who is opposed to it? What are the reasons for the opposition’s dissent? Who do the parties on either side speak for (who are their backers/donors)?
Essay Topic 3
Have you or your family thought about plans or had discussions about care trajectories for the elder members of your family? What made those conversations possible, or made them impossible to have? Describe the impediments to holding these necessary conversations, and describe either how your family overcame them, or who stands in the way of having them? Why is it so hard to have these hard conversations?
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