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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Quinlan's occupation?
(a) Construction supervisor.
(b) Construction worker.
(c) Engineer.
(d) Architect.

2. How heavy was the woman that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) About 130 pounds.
(b) More than 200 pounds.
(c) About 175 pounds.
(d) About 300 pounds.

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

4. 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) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(c) Thomas Andrew Martinson.
(d) John Ronald Brown.

5. How large was the fourth patient that Gawande had to insert a central line?
(a) About 250 pounds.
(b) About 195 pounds.
(c) Over 300 pounds.
(d) About 380 pounds.

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

7. What was the oxygen saturation of woman who Gawande treats at the beginning of "When Doctors Make Mistakes"?
(a) 98 percent.
(b) 90 percent.
(c) 88 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

8. How many hospital patients suffered complications from treatment that prolonged their hospital stay or resulted in disability or death according to a Harvard Medical Practice Study in 1991?
(a) 9 percent.
(b) 3 percent.
(c) 7 percent.
(d) 4 percent.

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

10. When did Quinlan fall off a plank at a construction site?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1994.
(d) 1991.

11. When did Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall propose that the pain model be replaced with what they called the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1953.

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

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

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

15. What was the woman's alcohol level that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) A little over the legal limit.
(b) 3 times the legal limit.
(c) Just under the legal limit.
(d) About twice the legal limit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many patients a day did Goodman's physician's assistant say the man would see and not spend more than five minutes with them?

3. Who directs the chronic-pain treatment center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston?

4. On an EKG, what is the downstroke at the start of a heart beat called?

5. Who originated the explanation of pain that has dominated much of medical history?

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