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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Queasy Feeling.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How late were clinical sessions lined up until at the surgeons convention?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 8 p.m.
(c) 10:30 p.m.
(d) Midnight.

2. How long might it take in most hospitals to repair a hernia?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 2 hours.
(c) 1 hours.
(d) 90 minutes.

3. Who was the gynecologist from Ohio who subjected hundreds of women when they had been anesthetized for other procedures to bizarre disfiguring procedures that he called the Surgery of Love?
(a) Branson Smith.
(b) Charles Neeley.
(c) David Zaner.
(d) James Burt.

4. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?
(a) 5,300.
(b) 4,200.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 6,100.

5. What percentage of workers' compensation payments are paid to sufferers of back pain?
(a) 80 percent.
(b) 35 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 40 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who directs the chronic-pain treatment center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston?

2. When did Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall propose that the pain model be replaced with what they called the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?

3. How long after Bryce Shouldice left medical school did he begin performing hernia operations at Shouldice?

4. For over a decade, how many hours did Goodman work a week?

5. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?

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