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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many times had the surgeons conference been held?
(a) 108 times.
(b) 86 times.
(c) 79 times.
(d) 93 times.

4. 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?
(a) 25.
(b) 30.
(c) 40.
(d) 35.

5. When does the American College of Surgeons convention take place?
(a) Mid-October.
(b) July.
(c) September.
(d) April.

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

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

8. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1996.

9. How many companies were registered in attendance at the surgeons convention?
(a) About 900 companies.
(b) About 1700 companies.
(c) Some 1200 companies.
(d) Around 300 companies.

10. How old was the patient Gawande saw while on trauma duty who had been shot in the buttock?
(a) 20.
(b) 40.
(c) 35.
(d) 15.

11. Who directs the chronic-pain treatment center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston?
(a) Dr. Marshall Davidson.
(b) Dr. Wyatt Irving.
(c) Dr. Edgar Ross.
(d) Dr. Robert Edgington.

12. How many central lines did Gawande try before succeeding on his own?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 6.

13. How long might it take in most hospitals to repair a hernia?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) 45 minutes.
(c) 90 minutes.
(d) 1 hours.

14. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?
(a) Had a 3-inch screw in her foot.
(b) Had a fractured ankle.
(c) Had a fractured finger.
(d) Had a piece of wire in her hand.

15. 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) David Zaner.
(b) Charles Neeley.
(c) James Burt.
(d) Branson Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of day was it when Gawande had to leave the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?

2. How long is the apprenticeship at Shouldice Hospital?

3. 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?

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

5. How many minutes without oxygen could lead to brain damage and perhaps death?

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