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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. What percent of the population does a crude estimate suggest are afflicted with severe blushing?

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

3. By 2003, how many more patients were expected to have gastric-bypass surgery than did in 1999?

4. Who came with Bratton to the emergency room?

5. Who wrote that "man is the only animal that blushes or needs to"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

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

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

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

5. What is a core predicament in medicine?

6. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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

8. Describe the dissecting room and location where Gawande observed an autopsy.

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

10. What types of situations made Drury blush?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the physician's dodge and why Gawande believes that it is a necessary part of medical training.

Essay Topic 2

Argue whether gastric-bypass surgery is or is not a successful way to lose weight. Use examples from the book to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

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

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