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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do patients leave the operating room at Shouldice after having surgery?
(a) They leave in a wheelchair.
(b) They use a walker.
(c) They walk out of the room.
(d) They are taken on a gurney.

2. During what year of his training does Gawande have a chance to attend a surgeons convention?
(a) 6th year.
(b) 5th year.
(c) 7th year.
(d) 8th year.

3. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?
(a) Britain.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) Australia.
(d) Canada.

4. How much money did Goodman make in a year when he was doing well?
(a) $250,000.
(b) $500,000.
(c) $300,000.
(d) $400,000.

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

6. What is the fear of Friday the thirteenth called?
(a) Paraskevidekatriaphobia.
(b) Zemmiphobia.
(c) Ballistophobia.
(d) Acrophobia.

7. 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) Thomas Andrew Martinson.
(b) Martin David White.
(c) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(d) John Ronald Brown.

8. 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 colon cancer.
(c) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(d) Surgery to remove an appendix.

9. Where was the surgeon's conference held that Gawande attended?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) New York City.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Kansas City.

10. When installing a central line, how long is the wire that is inserted into the vein toward the vena cava ?
(a) 12 inches long.
(b) 3 feet long.
(c) 15 inches long.
(d) 2 feet long.

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

12. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) Michael Bartholomew.
(b) Lars Edenbrandt.
(c) William Baxt.
(d) David Angston.

13. What did Quinlan hurt when he fell off a plank at a construction site?
(a) Dislocated and fractured his shoulder.
(b) Fractured his hip.
(c) Broke his femur.
(d) Crushed his ankle.

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

15. What percentage of workers' compensation payments are paid to sufferers of back pain?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 35 percent.
(c) 40 percent.
(d) 80 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second most common reason why employees miss work?

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

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

4. How many companies were registered in attendance at the surgeons convention?

5. What was wrong with Lee Tran?

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