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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) 5 to 20 percent.
(c) About 35 percent.
(d) 1 to 10 percent.

2. In court, how many children did Noe say that she had killed?
(a) 8.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

3. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?
(a) 1997.
(b) 1981.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1993.

4. When did the Goteborg group begin accepting patients who complained of disabling blushing?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1990.

5. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 1 hours.
(c) 4 hours.
(d) 3 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?

2. How old was the pathology assistant who did the dissection for the autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut"?

3. How many months after Joseph Lazaroff began having problems was a scan ordered?

4. What was Victor Caselli's occupation?

5. What body part had to be amputated on the man with necrotizing fasciitis?

Short Essay Questions

1. At the turn of the century, how did prominent physicians begin to win popular support for the practice of autopsy?

2. What are the dangers of surgery for a morbidly obese person?

3. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

4. Why did Gawande and others suspect abuse when they saw a two-month-old boy whose face had been badly scalded?

5. What does it mean that "there is an art to being a patient"?

6. What does Gawande say was the relationship between doctor and patient over a decade ago?

7. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?

8. What was the outcome when Noe was taken to court for the deaths of her children in 1998?

9. Describe the dissecting room and location where Gawande observed an autopsy.

10. What was Christine Drury's first job at Channel 13 News in Indianapolis?

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