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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. What is causing Patrick excess suffering?
(a) His antibiotics.
(b) His nurses' incompetence.
(c) His doctors' indecisiveness.
(d) His family's interference.

2. Why are the hospital staff concerned about Armando's care?
(a) They are not certain that their doctors are experienced enough to handle his case.
(b) They need special equipment to be able to care for him.
(c) With no prospect of recovery, they're not sure the cost of his care can be justified.
(d) They are unsure if they can provide the quality of care that he needs.

3. What does Teresa want to do?
(a) Cut funding for uninsured or underinsured patient care.
(b) Donate money to the pediatric wing of the hospital.
(c) Establish new guidelines for withdrawing life support from patients.
(d) Participate in the ethics committee at Hermann.

4. What ethical issue does the Committee debate focus on?
(a) Whether Patrick should stay at the hospital, or go somewhere else.
(b) Whether it is right to withdraw life support if Patrick's mother can't pay, considering the hospital's already massive debt.
(c) Whether withdrawing Patrick's life support is "giving up," or letting nature take its course.
(d) How Patrick should be told that his mother has decided to withdraw his life support.

5. Who is Virginia Lennox?
(a) Taylor's social worker.
(b) Taylor's doctor.
(c) Taylor's aunt.
(d) One of the nurses in the NICU.

Short Answer Questions

1. What system in Patrick's body is affected by his disease?

2. Which baby is born first?

3. Why do Fran and Carey dislike Sharon Crandell?

4. What happens to Jake?

5. Who raises the question of whether to withdraw Patrick's IV line?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Poarches feel about the doctor they receive when they first arrive at Hermann?

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

3. Who is Virginia Lennox?

4. What question is the Committee facing in Chapter 1?

5. What is the purpose of the Ethics Committee?

6. What is Oria Dismuke's relationship with Patrick?

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

8. What is the composition of the Ethics Committee?

9. What is Fran's treatment when she first arrives at Hermann?

10. What is the treatment for Patrick's condition?

(see the answer keys)

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