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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 many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 12 weeks.
(d) 8 weeks.

2. 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) Midnight.
(c) 1:15 a.m.
(d) 2:15 a.m.

3. How many pounds does Caselli estimate he had lost and gained in his life?
(a) 500 pounds.
(b) 700 pounds.
(c) 800 pounds.
(d) 1,000 pounds.

4. By what age do most of the SIDS deaths occur?
(a) By 3 months of age.
(b) By 6 months of age.
(c) By 1 year old.
(d) By 9 months of age.

5. When was Marie Noe giving birth to her children?
(a) 1950 to 1965.
(b) 1970 to 2000.
(c) 1945 to 1960.
(d) 1949 to 1968.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the United States National Center for Health Statistics stop collecting autopsy statistics?

2. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?

3. Where did Drury go to college?

4. What was the name of Lazaroff's son?

5. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What sometimes happens to those who decide not to undergo gastric-bypass surgery even if they qualify?

9. What two options did Lazaroff have to deal with the metastasis that was compressing his thoracic spinal cord?

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

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