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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much might it cost in most hospitals to repair a hernia?
(a) Upward of $4,000.
(b) Upward of $8,000.
(c) Around $3,000.
(d) Around $5,500.

2. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?
(a) Andrew Weaver.
(b) Henrich Wagner.
(c) Hans Ohlin.
(d) John Brighton.

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

4. How old was the woman that Gawande saw in the emergency room his first day as a surgical resident?
(a) About 40.
(b) Mid 30s.
(c) Late 20s.
(d) Early 30s.

5. 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) 4 percent.
(d) 7 percent.

6. What statistician described a classic example of imagining patterns where really there are none when he described the Germans' bombing patterns of South London in World War II?
(a) Wagner Westford.
(b) William Feller.
(c) Lance Bridger.
(d) Brandon Wyatt.

7. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?
(a) 6.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 10.

8. 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?
(a) Branson Smith.
(b) Charles Neeley.
(c) David Zaner.
(d) James Burt.

9. What percent of patients with heart attacks who are seen in emergency rooms are mistakenly discharged?
(a) About 10 percent.
(b) Between 2 and 8 percent.
(c) About 25 percent.
(d) Between 1 and 5 percent.

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

11. What type of a necklace did New York Mets' pitcher Turk Wendell always wear?
(a) Cross necklace.
(b) A St. Christopher medal on a chain.
(c) Animal-fang necklace.
(d) A silver four-leaf clover on a chain.

12. 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) 1953.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1965.

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

14. How many electrocardiograms did a man examine to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 3,215.
(b) 675.
(c) 1,775.
(d) 2,240.

15. How many might attend an M&M at Gawande's hospital?
(a) 75 people.
(b) 55 people.
(c) Almost 100 people.
(d) About 200 people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages were in the book that listed the schedule of programs at the surgeons convention?

2. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?

3. What color of blood indicates that the central line is inserted properly?

4. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?

5. For over a decade, how many hours did Goodman work a week?

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