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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 people who have necrotizing fasciitis die?

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

3. How many cases of cellulitis occur in the entire United States each year?

4. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?

5. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick get her M.B.A.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What physical changes did Drury experience after her surgery to stop blushing?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What do studies show about the chances of obese adults and obese children to lose weight and keep it off?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the three theories of pain discussed in the book.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Explain the two meanings of the title Complications. Use examples from the book.

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