Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Atul Gawande
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 144 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For how many years have there been workplace programs to focus on the proper way to lift among other things?
(a) 60 years.
(b) 45 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 20 years.

2. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?
(a) Henrich Wagner.
(b) Andrew Weaver.
(c) Hans Ohlin.
(d) John Brighton.

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

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

5. 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) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(c) Thomas Andrew Martinson.
(d) Martin David White.

Short Answer Questions

1. When were Fitzpatrick's twins born?

2. How do patients leave the operating room at Shouldice after having surgery?

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. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?

(see the answer key)

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