View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a two-day admission turn into for Mr. Jolly?

2. In 1999, how many obesity patients had gastric-bypass surgery in the United States?

3. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?

4. Where was Amy Fitzpatrick when she had her first bout with vomiting?

5. How old was Gawande's son Walker when Hattie broke her forearm?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

7. When did Lazaroff first learn what was wrong?

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

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

10. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?

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

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the doctor's and patient's role in making treatment decisions.

Essay Topic 3

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,060 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample