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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. Irv Lipsiner is described as an athlete and what in Chapter 1?

2. In what year was Alzheimer’s disease properly identified?

3. The human heart has a mass between how many grams?

4. When were electrocardiograms invented?

5. What did Dr. Nuland’s grandmother eventually die from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What statistics does Dr. Nuland provide relating to ischemic heart disease in Chapter 1?

2. How does the author go about explaining the heart’s functions in Chapter 2?

3. What does Dr. Nuland suggest as the cause for the sense of peace that describes certain individuals who die through severe trauma in Chapter 6?

4. How does the author explain man’s need for oxygen in Chapter 6?

5. How treatable are cardiac events, according to the author in Chapter 1?

6. What does Dr. Nuland say regarding the bureaucracy of death in Chapter 3?

7. How do the brain and heart change as a person ages, according to the author in Chapter 3?

8. When did the author encounter James McCarty? How is McCarty depicted in Chapter 1?

9. What medical procedure did Dr. Nuland Perform on James McCarty? What was the outcome?

10. How does the author describe the metabolic changes of aging in Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the body’s need for oxygen and the symptoms and prognosis for shock. What is the significance of the quote, “man is an obligate aerobe”? How much blood is lost before a person enters the state of shock? How does the injury itself (i.e.: where the individual is losing blood from) affect the prognosis?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the six primary avenues leading to death as defined in the Introduction of the book. Which of these avenues affects the elderly principally? Which are more common among the young? Were there any avenues on this list that surprised you? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the discovery of AIDS in the U.S. in 1981 and medical progress in the diagnoses, evaluation, and treatment of the disease. How has the prognosis for HIV/AIDS changed in the past decade? What theories explain the spread of AIDS in the United States? Where did AIDS originate?

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