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

2. Where did Drury go to have surgery to stop her blushing?

3. How old was Eleanor Bratton when she had a red and swollen leg?

4. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?

5. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

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

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

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

7. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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

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

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

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

Argue whether or not medicine can or should be automated as much as possible. Use examples from Complications.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the doctor's and patient's role in making treatment decisions.

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