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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. Who wrote "The Silent World of Doctor and Patient"?

2. How long before seeing Bratton had Gawande seen a man with necrotizing fasciitis?

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

4. When did the Goteborg group begin accepting patients who complained of disabling blushing?

5. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick get her M.B.A.?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do studies show about the chances of obese adults and obese children to lose weight and keep it off?

2. What does Gawande say was the relationship between doctor and patient over a decade ago?

3. What may cause babies to die from SIDS?

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

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

6. How incapacitated did Amy Fitzgerald become during her pregnancy?

7. What types of situations made Drury blush?

8. What happened to the babies born to Marie Noe?

9. What two options did Lazaroff have to deal with the metastasis that was compressing his thoracic spinal cord?

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

Discuss the mysteries and unknowns of medicine and the struggles of what to do with them. Use examples from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the three theories of pain discussed in the book.

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