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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - Nine Thousand Surgeons.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percent of patients with heart attacks who are seen in emergency rooms are mistakenly discharged?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) Between 2 and 8 percent.
(c) Between 1 and 5 percent.
(d) About 10 percent.

2. How many operating rooms are at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 5.

3. How many central lines did Gawande try before succeeding on his own?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

4. How long after Bryce Shouldice left medical school did he begin performing hernia operations at Shouldice?
(a) About 2 years after finishing medical school.
(b) 18 months after finishing medical school.
(c) Right from medical school.
(d) About a year after finishing medical school.

5. How many surgeons attended the American College of Surgeons convention?
(a) 7,648.
(b) 10,312.
(c) 8,914.
(d) 9,312.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much might it cost in most hospitals to repair a hernia?

2. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?

3. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?

4. Who introduced the term "health-care focused factory"?

5. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

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