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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. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?
(a) 8.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

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

3. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?
(a) Canada.
(b) Britain.
(c) New Zealand.
(d) Australia.

4. When installing a central line, how long is the wire that is inserted into the vein toward the vena cava ?
(a) 12 inches long.
(b) 3 feet long.
(c) 15 inches long.
(d) 2 feet long.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the woman that Gawande saw in the emergency room his first day as a surgical resident?

2. How long after Bryce Shouldice left medical school did he begin performing hernia operations at Shouldice?

3. Where did Gawande grow up?

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

5. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

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