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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 central lines did Gawande try before succeeding on his own?
(a) 8.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

2. How many minutes without oxygen could lead to brain damage and perhaps death?
(a) 6 minutes.
(b) 5 minutes.
(c) 3 minutes.
(d) 4 minutes.

3. How much might it cost in most hospitals to repair a hernia?
(a) Upward of $8,000.
(b) Around $3,000.
(c) Around $5,500.
(d) Upward of $4,000.

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

5. How many hospital patients suffered complications from treatment that prolonged their hospital stay or resulted in disability or death according to a Harvard Medical Practice Study in 1991?
(a) 9 percent.
(b) 3 percent.
(c) 7 percent.
(d) 4 percent.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long do hernia operations take at Shouldice Hospital?

4. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?

5. What was wrong with Lee Tran?

(see the answer key)

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