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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did Caselli weigh before the surgery?

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

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

4. What were Christine Drury's hours when she was an overnight television anchorwoman?

5. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What types of situations made Drury blush?

4. What is a core predicament in medicine?

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

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

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

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

9. Why were autopsies performed clandestinely in the West even in the nineteenth century?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from Complications, argue whether the belief in superstitions is anecdotal or scientific.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the two meanings of the title Complications. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why good doctors go bad and what solutions there are for the problem. Use examples from the book.

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