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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How was the woman injured that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) A fall at home.
(b) A fall at work.
(c) Auto accident.
(d) A domestic incident.

4. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?
(a) Errors and Medicine.
(b) No Room for Error.
(c) Human Error.
(d) Fatal System Error.

5. What year were the articles by Joseph Lister that were for sale?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1874.

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

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

8. What did Turk Wendell insist that his salary be for the 1999 season?
(a) $750,000.99.
(b) $2,100,000.99.
(c) $1,200,000.99.
(d) $500,000.99.

9. For luck, what did Michael Jordon always wear under his Chicago Bulls uniform?
(a) North Carolina boxer shorts.
(b) Blue boxer shorts.
(c) Striped boxer shorts.
(d) Heart boxer shorts.

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

11. How many operating rooms are at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 9.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

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

13. At what hotel was Gawande staying for the surgeon's convention?
(a) Embassy Suites.
(b) Best Western.
(c) Doubletree.
(d) Hyatt Regency.

14. 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) 7 percent.
(b) 3 percent.
(c) 9 percent.
(d) 4 percent.

15. 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) Brandon Wyatt.
(b) Lance Bridger.
(c) William Feller.
(d) Wagner Westford.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the former orthopedic surgeon that Gawande writes about in "When Good Doctors Go Bad"?

2. What violation finally got Goodman in trouble?

3. How many might attend an M&M at Gawande's hospital?

4. How old was the woman that Gawande saw in the emergency room his first day as a surgical resident?

5. How many electrocardiograms did a man examine to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

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