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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - When Good Doctors Go Bad.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?
(a) Marines.
(b) Air Force.
(c) Army.
(d) Navy.

3. How was the woman injured that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) Auto accident.
(b) A fall at home.
(c) A fall at work.
(d) A domestic incident.

4. Who was the staff surgeon in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) Malcom Wiggins.
(b) Michael Ball.
(c) Matt Provin.
(d) Mitchell Davidson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many times had the surgeons conference been held?

3. Where did Gawande grow up?

4. When does the American College of Surgeons convention take place?

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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