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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. When does the American College of Surgeons convention take place?
(a) July.
(b) September.
(c) April.
(d) Mid-October.

2. What was wrong with Lee Tran?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) The flu.
(c) Bronchitis.
(d) A tumor.

3. How late were clinical sessions lined up until at the surgeons convention?
(a) 10:30 p.m.
(b) 8 p.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) 9 p.m.

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

5. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?
(a) Errors and Medicine.
(b) No Room for Error.
(c) Human Error.
(d) Fatal System Error.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?

2. How heavy was the woman that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?

3. Who was the chief resident in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?

4. How long is the apprenticeship at Shouldice Hospital?

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

(see the answer key)

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