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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. How much did the recovery room nurse at Gawande's hospital weigh at one time?

2. Who came with Bratton to the emergency room?

3. What percent of pregnant women experience morning sickness?

4. How old was Noe's husband when she plead to guilty to killing her children?

5. When did the United States National Center for Health Statistics stop collecting autopsy statistics?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What types of situations made Drury blush?

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

6. What are some ways that people have gotten necrotizing fasciitis?

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

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

9. What did the surgery involve that Drury had in order to stop blushing?

10. What is a core predicament in medicine?

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

Discuss the pros and cons of having doctors agree in advance what should be done in the uncertain situations that arise (spell out actions ahead of time to remove the guesswork and get some advantage of group decision). Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

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

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