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

2. How many surgeons attended the American College of Surgeons convention?
(a) 8,914.
(b) 10,312.
(c) 9,312.
(d) 7,648.

3. What would Wade Boggs, the Boton Red Sox's former star third baseman, always eat before a game?
(a) A T-bone.
(b) Pork.
(c) A large salad.
(d) Chicken.

4. How long did it take a man to examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 4 days.
(b) A week.
(c) 2 days.
(d) 3 weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of a local anesthetic did the chief resident use when she put in a central line?

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

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

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

5. How many studies did Gawande find when doing a computer search to attempt to identify "circalunidian" cycles?

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