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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 old was Victor Caselli?

2. What percent of pregnant women experience morning sickness?

3. How high was Bratton's fever when she decided to go to the doctor?

4. What body part had to be amputated on the man with necrotizing fasciitis?

5. During an all-night interview, how many children did Noe confess she had suffocated?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When Gawande was seeing patients with a surgery professor, what words surprised him?

3. What types of situations made Drury blush?

4. What are the dangers of surgery for a morbidly obese person?

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

6. Were Fitzpatrick's twins healthy when they were born?

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

8. What is a core predicament in medicine?

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

10. Why couldn't Caselli be anesthetized lying down?

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

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

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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