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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 name of Lazaroff's son?

2. How much did the recovery room nurse at Gawande's hospital weigh at one time?

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

4. Who began his career at the same television station where Drury worked?

5. How long did it take Lazaroff to die after being removed from the ventilator?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

8. Why did Gawande and others suspect abuse when they saw a two-month-old boy whose face had been badly scalded?

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

10. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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 Complications, argue whether the belief in superstitions is anecdotal or scientific.

Essay Topic 3

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

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