1. What was the problem with the type of oncologist described in number 77?
(a) He enjoyed making his patients sick.
(b) He had no real interest in knowing how sick the patients became from treatment.
(c) He had no bedside manner.
(d) He was not well-educated.

2. Moya Cole takes another look at whose theories on radical surgery?
(a) Mukherjee's.
(b) Howard's.
(c) Farber's.
(d) Halsted's.

3. It was a risky prediction to attempt to verify untested theories through what?
(a) Radical surgeries.
(b) Dissections.
(c) Clinical trials.
(d) Animal research.

4. What is MOPP?
(a) A combination chemotherapy regimen.
(b) A radical surgery done for those with cancer.
(c) A simple surgery done for those with cancer.
(d) A tool used to clean the floor.

5. A final report from the panel agreed about what?
(a) That such an agency should be formed.
(b) That such an organization would never work.
(c) That such a panel should not be formed.
(d) That such a hospital is not cost-effective.

Short Answer Questions

1. Several months later Rudolf Virchow, a German researcher, published a case study strikingly similar to Bennett's case. How does Virchow argue with Bennett's theory?

2. Due to the resistance of patient involvement, the clinical trials lasted for __________ years.

3. Then this surgery was accelerated to what?

4. Who led tests on intensive chemotherapy by using 4 drugs referred to as MOPP?

5. Kennedy assigned the job to whom?

(see the answer key)

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