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

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

3. What month was it when Gawande saw a patient with a red and swollen leg?
(a) April.
(b) May.
(c) July.
(d) June.

4. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) August 18, 1996.
(b) November 21, 1997.
(c) December 12, 1998.
(d) September 13, 1999.

5. At what time did the retired New England doctor's wife make it to the hospital once his illness was determined to be fatal?
(a) 5:00 a.m.
(b) 2:15 a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 1:15 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long before seeing Bratton had Gawande seen a man with necrotizing fasciitis?

2. When did Gawande attend medical school?

3. When was one of the earliest forensic examinations performed?

4. By what age do most of the SIDS deaths occur?

5. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick get her M.B.A.?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is a core predicament in medicine?

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

5. What are some ways that people have gotten necrotizing fasciitis?

6. What did the surgery involve that Drury had in order to stop blushing?

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

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

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

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

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