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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How many pages were in the book that listed the schedule of programs at the surgeons convention?
(a) 388.
(b) 149.
(c) 237.
(d) 78.

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

7. What was Dr. Richard Sang's practice before he came to Shouldice?
(a) Internist.
(b) General surgeon.
(c) Obstetrics.
(d) Family Practice.

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

9. What type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?
(a) Hernia surgery.
(b) Abdominal surgery.
(c) Removal of his appendix.
(d) Heart surgery.

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

11. 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.

12. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove an appendix.
(b) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(c) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.
(d) Surgery to remove colon cancer.

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

14. On an EKG, what is the downstroke at the start of a heart beat called?
(a) S wave.
(b) T wave.
(c) R wave.
(d) Q wave.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Quinlan hurt when he fell off a plank at a construction site?

2. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

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

4. 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?

5. How long after Bryce Shouldice left medical school did he begin performing hernia operations at Shouldice?

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