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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 many cases of cellulitis occur in the entire United States each year?

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

3. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?

4. What were the chances that Caselli could have died during the gastric-bypass surgery?

5. When were Fitzpatrick's twins born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the dilemma that is posed by the necessity for doctors to learn how to treat patients and the necessity for good patient care. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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

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