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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. How long before seeing Bratton had Gawande seen a man with necrotizing fasciitis?
(a) A few weeks before.
(b) 5 days before.
(c) 3 week before.
(d) 2 days before.

2. How old was Mr. Jolly when he died?
(a) In his nineties.
(b) In his eighties.
(c) In his sixties.
(d) In his fifties.

3. What time did the retired New England doctor pass away?
(a) 2:45 a.m.
(b) 12:30 a.m.
(c) 5:30 a.m.
(d) 1:45 a.m.

4. Who wrote "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient"?
(a) Andrew Meisner.
(b) Joseph Kauffman.
(c) Susan Whitman.
(d) Jay Katz.

5. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?
(a) 31.
(b) 35.
(c) 21.
(d) 25.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is it controversial to keep the internal organs of the deceased after an autopsy?

2. What percent of pregnant women experience morning sickness?

3. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?

4. What percent of the population does a crude estimate suggest are afflicted with severe blushing?

5. In what book was a man programmed away from brutality by coupling his violent urges with feelings of nausea?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?

4. How incapacitated did Amy Fitzgerald become during her pregnancy?

5. Why in 1533 was the first documented postmortem examination in the New World performed?

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

7. When Gawande was seeing patients with a surgery professor, what words surprised him?

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

9. What was it like for Bratton to be in the hyperbaric chamber?

10. What do studies show about the chances of obese adults and obese children to lose weight and keep it off?

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