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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick live?
(a) Bridgeport.
(b) Long Island.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Brooklyn.

2. At what hotel was Gawande staying for the surgeon's convention?
(a) Hyatt Regency.
(b) Embassy Suites.
(c) Doubletree.
(d) Best Western.

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) Charles Neeley.
(b) Branson Smith.
(c) James Burt.
(d) David Zaner.

4. At any given time, approximately what percent of practicing physicians are unfit to see patients?
(a) 3-5 percent.
(b) 7-8 percent.
(c) 1-2 percent.
(d) 5-6 percent.

5. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?
(a) Army.
(b) Marines.
(c) Navy.
(d) Air Force.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the case of the badly infected knee that Goodman mishandled?

2. How many siblings does Goodman have?

3. How long did it take a man to examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

4. Where did Amy Fitzpatrick and her husband drive for Easter?

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

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