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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 percentage of doctors in Nicholas Christakis’ study overestimated their patients’ survival time?
2. How does Gawande say insurance companies respond after the Nelene Fox case found insurance companies at fault for not paying for expensive treatments?
3. What is a pandit?
4. What is the ars moriendi?
5. How did Bill Thomas overcome the institutional inertia that might have complicated his plans to introduce animals?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Gawande say goes into a “comfort pack” (162)?
2. What was Bill Thomas’ idea for bringing more self-reliance to the residents of Chase Memorial?
3. What does Gawande say was the mistake his father made in his medical care?
4. What effect did Thomas’ changes have on the residents?
5. How did Bill Thomas’ idea play out?
6. How does Gawande say the western medical model is spreading throughout the world?
7. How does Gawande characterize the ceremony for disposing of his father’s ashes?
8. How does Gawande characterize the work that remains to be done in medicine?
9. How does Gawande say that dealing with elderly patients changed his medical approach?
10. How does Gawande say that end-of-life care costs affect the American medical system?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Which character does Gawande connect you with most intensely? Why? What part of the story did you connect with? Which individuals were you least connected to, or even put off by? How does Gawande guide your sympathies in his storytelling?
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
How do the problems Gawande describes in health care relate to other problems that are characteristic of American culture? Are American attitudes to health care related to attitudes about climate change? Environmentalism? Labor or environmental regulations? Pick an issue and show how the Americanness is similar or different.
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