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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Armando's doctor frustrated with Armando's family?
(a) Because they refuse to accept the permanence of his condition.
(b) Because they argue with them about every recommendation he makes.
(c) Because they can't understand Armando's condition.
(d) Because they refuse to help care for Armando.

2. Why is the financial administrator's job unpopular?
(a) Because she sometimes has to say no to doctors' requests.
(b) Because she must weigh morality and financial costs.
(c) Because she has to admit that there are limitations to what the hospital can afford.
(d) Because she has to deal with the insurance companies.

3. Who suggests discussing the removal of Taylor's ventilator with the ethics committee?
(a) Sharon Crandell.
(b) Eugene Adcock.
(c) Sally Olsen.
(d) David MacDougall.

4. How does the Total Life Care Center keep its operating costs down?
(a) By only accepting patients whose families can afford their care.
(b) By purchasing used equipment from other hospitals.
(c) By reducing the number of nurses needed.
(d) By hiring student doctors and nurses.

5. What fact must the ethics committee face?
(a) The hospital is going to go bankrupt.
(b) They cannot afford to give everyone the care they need.
(c) They must cut the jobs of approximately 100 staff.
(d) The hospital must go from privately-funded to publicly-funded.

6. Who is Hermann's chief pediatric surgeon?
(a) Hazel Mitchell.
(b) Lin Weeks.
(c) Richard Andrussy.
(d) David MacDougall.

7. How did Claire get pregnant?
(a) Accidentally.
(b) They had been trying to conceive, but without fertility drugs.
(c) After years of fertility treatment.
(d) Soon after stopping birth control.

8. How is Armando's social worker described?
(a) Neither emotionally invested nor competent.
(b) Not very emotional, but extremely competent.
(c) Not very competent, but emotionally invested in her clients.
(d) Both emotionally invested, and extremely competent.

9. What happened as Hermann continued to grow?
(a) It hired more interns and student doctors.
(b) It was incorporated with other medical facilities.
(c) It hired better and more prestigious doctors.
(d) It started to compete with other local area hospitals.

10. What is Armando not allowed to do at the Total Life Care Center?
(a) Have female visitors.
(b) Have his family come to visit.
(c) Be rude to the nurses.
(d) Have his family bring food to him.

11. Who is Armando's doctor?
(a) Eugene Adcock.
(b) Sharon Crandell.
(c) David MacDougall.
(d) Lin Weeks.

12. How much time elapsed between the events, and the book being written?
(a) Three years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Four years.
(d) Ten years.

13. According to Belkin, what is "First, Do No Harm" about?
(a) Making choices, and living with them.
(b) The ethics of medicine.
(c) Doctors putting aside their own biases.
(d) Weighing ethics and financial concerns.

14. What is Margo Cox's profession?
(a) Neurologist.
(b) Neonatologist.
(c) Oncologist.
(d) Pediatric surgeon.

15. Who is Javier's department chairman?
(a) Jan Van Eys.
(b) Lin Weeks.
(c) Richard Wright.
(d) Sally Olsen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In which month does Chapter 11 end?

2. Hermann was caught up in scandals until when?

3. What initially happened to the money that the founder left behind for the construction of the hospital?

4. Who is Armando's social worker?

5. Who is Lee Zacharias?

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