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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. During what week in Fitzpatrick's pregnancy was she able to eat an odd selection of four things in sliver-size portions?

2. How many pregnant woman who are employed miss work because of morning sickness?

3. For how many years have doctors been performing autopsies?

4. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?

5. How old was Lazaroff?

Short Essay Questions

1. What sometimes happens to those who decide not to undergo gastric-bypass surgery even if they qualify?

2. What is a core predicament in medicine?

3. What types of situations made Drury blush?

4. Describe Amy Fitzgerald's first experience with nausea during her pregnancy.

5. When Gawande was seeing patients with a surgery professor, what words surprised him?

6. What was the outcome when Noe was taken to court for the deaths of her children in 1998?

7. Why couldn't Caselli be anesthetized lying down?

8. What drugs were prescribed for Fitzpatrick, and how did they help reduce her nausea?

9. Why were autopsies performed clandestinely in the West even in the nineteenth century?

10. What was Christine Drury's first job at Channel 13 News in Indianapolis?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how and why autopsy can be used as a tool in medicine.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from Complications, argue whether the belief in superstitions is anecdotal or scientific.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the dilemma that is posed by the necessity for doctors to learn how to treat patients and the necessity for good patient care. Use examples from the book.

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