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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't Patrick's doctor want to give him surgery?
(a) He isn't sure that he is qualified to do it.
(b) It is risky, and will only lead to a new infection.
(c) It is expensive, and his insurance won't cover it.
(d) He's not sure it's completely necessary.

2. What is Patrick's central IV line for?
(a) It delivers the nutrients his body needs.
(b) It delivers antibiotics.
(c) It drains fluid from the area around his heart.
(d) It delivers morphine.

3. When Sharon is rotated out, who is Taylor's new doctor?
(a) Richard Wright.
(b) Lin Weeks.
(c) Virginia Lennox.
(d) Eugene Adcock.

4. Who are Fran and Carey Poarch?
(a) Patrick's parents.
(b) A couple, pregnant with fraternal twins.
(c) Doctors at the hospital.
(d) A rich couple, and benefactors of the hospital.

5. What does Sally claim to be able to do?
(a) Diagnose patients just by looking at them.
(b) Anticipate the deaths of her patients.
(c) Speak to the ghosts of her deceased patients.
(d) Establish relationships that get patients to confide in her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Fran and Carey dislike Sharon Crandell?

2. How does Javier feel about Patrick?

3. How does Fran get to the hospital?

4. How do Fran and Carey feel about Taylor's new doctor?

5. Who is looking at the note at the beginning of Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the situation of the Poarch family at the end of Chapter 2?

2. What is the Institutional Ethics Committee?

3. Why is Fran rushed to Hermann?

4. What is Armando's condition, at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. How does Javier feel about Patrick?

6. What condition does Patrick have?

7. Why do Fran and Carey want to take Taylor off of the ventilator?

8. Why does Teresa feel that her son is happy?

9. On what question does the Ethics Committee's debate center in Chapter 1?

10. What is the composition of the Ethics Committee?

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