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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. How does Sharon react to discussing Taylor's treatment?
(a) She is resistant to discussing it.
(b) She is warm and caring when answering the Poarchs' questions.
(c) She gets emotional, and has difficulty answering the Poarchs' questions.
(d) She refuses to discuss it.

2. What does David attempt to explain to Armando's family at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) They have to go to another hospital because Armando is uninsured.
(b) That his chances of survival are slim.
(c) That he needs their signature on the consent form to do surgery on Armando.
(d) That Armando will never walk again.

3. Why do Fran and Carey dislike Sharon Crandell?
(a) Because they disagree with her diagnosis, and treatment suggestions.
(b) They think that she is too emotionally involved to make good decisions.
(c) Because they don't think she has the required experience.
(d) Because of her cold and businesslike demeanor.

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

5. Why does Sharon Crandell act the way she does with her patients and their families?
(a) She became a doctor because enjoyed the science, not because she truly wanted to help people.
(b) She emphasizes the positive side of things, to encourage optimism in her patients.
(c) She thinks she is treating her patients with respect by being so honest.
(d) She gets emotionally involved to avoid seeing her patients in an impersonal and scientific way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Fran and Carey feel about their hospital doctor?

2. Which patient is the subject of the June chapter, Chapter 2?

3. When does the ethics committee usually meet?

4. What happens to Patrick's line, as a result of his tampering?

5. What do the doctors have to do to Taylor and Jake?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Teresa's family situation?

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

3. What condition does Patrick have?

4. What happened on the night that Armando was shot?

5. What is the Institutional Ethics Committee?

6. Why did Armando leave Fort Worth to go to Madisonville?

7. What are Jake and Taylor's conditions when they are born?

8. What is the purpose of the Ethics Committee?

9. What is the composition of the Ethics Committee?

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

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