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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 was Dr. Richard Sang's practice before he came to Shouldice?
(a) Obstetrics.
(b) Internist.
(c) General surgeon.
(d) Family Practice.

2. How many operating rooms are at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

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

4. How large was the fourth patient that Gawande had to insert a central line?
(a) About 250 pounds.
(b) Over 300 pounds.
(c) About 380 pounds.
(d) About 195 pounds.

5. 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 put a screw in a broken leg.
(d) Surgery to remove an appendix.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the patient who needed a central line?

2. At what hotel was Gawande staying for the surgeon's convention?

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

4. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?

5. How old was the patient Gawande saw while on trauma duty who had been shot in the buttock?

(see the answer key)

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