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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. For over a decade, how many hours did Goodman work a week?
(a) 70-80.
(b) 50-60.
(c) 40-50.
(d) 80-100 hours.

2. Who was the San Diego surgeon working without a license who bungled some sex-change operations and amputated the leg of a healthy man?
(a) Martin David White.
(b) John Ronald Brown.
(c) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(d) Thomas Andrew Martinson.

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

4. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1996.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1994.

5. When was the case of the badly infected knee that Goodman mishandled?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1995.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the gynecologist from Ohio who subjected hundreds of women when they had been anesthetized for other procedures to bizarre disfiguring procedures that he called the Surgery of Love?

3. What year were the articles by Joseph Lister that were for sale?

4. How long after Bryce Shouldice left medical school did he begin performing hernia operations at Shouldice?

5. How long did it take a man to examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

(see the answer key)

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