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

2. How much do hernia operations cost at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) About one-fourth of what they cost elsewhere.
(b) Half what they cost elsewhere.
(c) About one-third of what they cost elsewhere.
(d) About twice what they cost elsewhere.

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

5. What time of day was it when Gawande had to leave the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) 10 p.m.
(b) Noon.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 2 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?

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

3. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

4. What was the woman's alcohol level that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?

5. How late were clinical sessions lined up until at the surgeons convention?

(see the answer key)

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