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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of a local anesthetic did the chief resident use when she put in a central line?
(a) Benzocaine.
(b) Triocaine.
(c) Lidocaine.
(d) Saxitoxin.

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

3. How many scientific studies did Gawande find that assessed whether or not luck actually does go bad on Friday the thirteenth?
(a) 0.
(b) 2.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

4. How long do hernia operations take at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 30-45 minutes.
(b) 20-25 minutes.
(c) About an hour.
(d) About 90 minutes.

5. How old was the patient Gawande saw while on trauma duty who had been shot in the buttock?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?

2. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

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

4. 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?

5. How much might it cost in most hospitals to repair a hernia?

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