Each chapter closes with Critical Thinking Questions (listed below) as a review of chapter material that focuses on the role of the medical assistant.

1. Why do anti-inflammatory drugs reduce pain? Are these drugs likely to prevent healing or promote healing?

2. Which is more serious, a cat born without arrector pili muscles or a human? Why?

3. Albinos lack melanin. What body structures are affected by this? What precautions must an albino take that nonalbinos do not have to worry about?