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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 many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?
(a) 4,200.
(b) 6,100.
(c) 3,500.
(d) 5,300.

2. Where was the surgeon's conference held that Gawande attended?
(a) New York City.
(b) Kansas City.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) Chicago.

3. On an EKG, what is the downstroke at the start of a heart beat called?
(a) T wave.
(b) S wave.
(c) R wave.
(d) Q wave.

4. Who introduced the term "health-care focused factory"?
(a) Ramona Wyatt.
(b) Rochelle Meslinger.
(c) Regina Herzlinger.
(d) Rachel Erlinger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many might attend an M&M at Gawande's hospital?

2. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?

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

4. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

5. What were the occupations of Gawande's parents?

(see the answer key)

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