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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. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?
2. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?
3. What were the chances that Caselli could have died during the gastric-bypass surgery?
4. How old was the pathology assistant who did the dissection for the autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut"?
5. How long had Gawande's daughter Hunter been home before she became ill?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why were autopsies performed clandestinely in the West even in the nineteenth century?
2. Why in 1533 was the first documented postmortem examination in the New World performed?
3. What was the outcome when Noe was taken to court for the deaths of her children in 1998?
4. When Gawande was seeing patients with a surgery professor, what words surprised him?
5. What are the dangers of surgery for a morbidly obese person?
6. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?
7. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?
8. Why couldn't Caselli be anesthetized lying down?
9. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?
10. What sometimes happens to those who decide not to undergo gastric-bypass surgery even if they qualify?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Using examples from the book, explain why Gawande believes that medicine is an imperfect science.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the physician's dodge and why Gawande believes that it is a necessary part of medical training.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the pros and cons of having doctors agree in advance what should be done in the uncertain situations that arise (spell out actions ahead of time to remove the guesswork and get some advantage of group decision). Use examples from the book.
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