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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?
(a) Hernia surgery.
(b) Removal of his appendix.
(c) Abdominal surgery.
(d) Heart surgery.

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

3. Who was the San Diego surgeon working without a license who bungled some sex-change operations and amputated the leg of a healthy man?
(a) John Ronald Brown.
(b) Thomas Andrew Martinson.
(c) Martin David White.
(d) Samuel Grayson Phillips.

4. What percent of Americans does a 1995 poll show believe that the moon alters individual behavior?
(a) 16 percent.
(b) 38 percent.
(c) 57 percent.
(d) 43 percent.

5. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) Michael Bartholomew.
(b) David Angston.
(c) Lars Edenbrandt.
(d) William Baxt.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many times had the surgeons conference been held?

2. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?

3. When is the M&M at Gawande's hospital?

4. What was the oxygen saturation of woman who Gawande treats at the beginning of "When Doctors Make Mistakes"?

5. How much do hernia operations cost at Shouldice Hospital?

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