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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 was the first indication Joseph Lazaroff had that something might be physically wrong with him?

2. When did Noe plead guilty to killing her children?

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

4. When did Gawande attend medical school?

5. Over the course of four days, how many times did Bratton's leg need to be operated upon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the outcome when Noe was taken to court for the deaths of her children in 1998?

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

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

5. What was Christine Drury's first job at Channel 13 News in Indianapolis?

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

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

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

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

10. At the turn of the century, how did prominent physicians begin to win popular support for the practice of autopsy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the uncertainty that is a core part of medicine and some proposed solutions for the problem. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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

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