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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. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?
(a) 80,000.
(b) 32,000.
(c) 52,000.
(d) 45,000.

2. How many months after Joseph Lazaroff began having problems was a scan ordered?
(a) 1 week.
(b) 3 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 2 weeks.

3. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick and her husband drive for Easter?
(a) Yonkers, New York.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Alexandria, Virginia.
(d) Baltimore, Maryland.

4. 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) 2:15 a.m.
(b) 1:15 a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 5:00 a.m.

5. When did Noe plead guilty to killing her children?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many weeks into her pregnancy was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?

2. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?

3. Approximately how many cases of necrotizing fasciitis occur in the entire United States each year?

4. Who wrote "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient"?

5. How many of Noe's children died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

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

5. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

6. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

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

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

9. What physical changes did Drury experience after her surgery to stop blushing?

10. Why couldn't Caselli be anesthetized lying down?

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