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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - The Computer and the Hernia Factor.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the occupations of Gawande's parents?
(a) Lawyers.
(b) Engineers.
(c) Orthodontists.
(d) Doctors.

2. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove colon cancer.
(b) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(c) Surgery to remove an appendix.
(d) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.

3. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1990.

4. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?
(a) Had a piece of wire in her hand.
(b) Had a fractured ankle.
(c) Had a 3-inch screw in her foot.
(d) Had a fractured finger.

5. Where did Gawande grow up?
(a) Athens, Ohio.
(b) Atlantic, Iowa.
(c) Alpena, Michigan.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?

3. What type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?

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

5. How much did a robotic surgery device cost that Gawande's department purchased?

(see the answer key)

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