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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. How was the woman injured that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) A domestic incident.
(b) A fall at home.
(c) A fall at work.
(d) Auto accident.

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

3. How do patients leave the operating room at Shouldice after having surgery?
(a) They use a walker.
(b) They are taken on a gurney.
(c) They walk out of the room.
(d) They leave in a wheelchair.

4. How old was the patient Gawande saw while on trauma duty who had been shot in the buttock?
(a) 35.
(b) 15.
(c) 20.
(d) 40.

5. What year were the articles by Joseph Lister that were for sale?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1912.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many central lines did Gawande try before succeeding on his own?

2. How many minutes without oxygen could lead to brain damage and perhaps death?

3. How many hospital patients suffered complications from treatment that prolonged their hospital stay or resulted in disability or death according to a Harvard Medical Practice Study in 1991?

4. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?

5. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?

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