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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. What was wrong with Lee Tran?

2. What year were the articles by Joseph Lister that were for sale?

3. How many central lines did Gawande try before succeeding on his own?

4. How much did a robotic surgery device cost that Gawande's department purchased?

5. Who is the doctor who was convicted of murdering fifteen patients with lethal doses of narcotics?

Short Essay Questions

1. Are doctors usually superstitious?

2. What is the most important criteria for becoming a surgeon?

3. What is the physician's dodge and why is it necessary?

4. Why did Rowland Scott Quinlan have to give up his firm to his partners?

5. What is the problem of what might be called everyday bad doctors?

6. What did Gawande watch during the afternoon of his first day at the surgeons convention?

7. Describe the Swedish study designed to see whether a computer could more accurately read an EKG than could a human.

8. Why aren't compassion and technology necessarily incompatible?

9. What one study did Gawande find that linked increased traffic accidents to Friday the thirteenth?

10. What is the newest theory of pain proposed by Melzack after abandoning the Gate-Control Theory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using examples from the book, compare and contrast the doctor's and patient's role in making treatment decisions.

Essay Topic 2

Explain what Gawande means when he says that medicine is a strange and disturbing business. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, argue whether child abuse can or cannot be proven using scientific methods.

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