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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. When did Gawande perform a gastric-bypass surgery?

2. When did Harvard psychologist William James observe that certain deaf people were immune to seasickness?

3. What year did a book cause a shift in how decision are made in medicine?

4. When did the Goteborg group begin accepting patients who complained of disabling blushing?

5. How old was the pathology assistant who did the dissection for the autopsy Gawande observed at the beginning of "Final Cut"?

Short Essay Questions

1. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

8. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book, argue whether child abuse can or cannot be proven using scientific methods.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the traits that make a good surgeon and why those traits are so important.

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