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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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) 40.
(b) 30.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

4. 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.

5. At what convention center was the surgeon's conference held?
(a) Chicago Convention Center.
(b) Chicagoland Conference Center.
(c) McCormick Place.
(d) Donald E. Stevens Convention Center.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

11. Who was the chief resident in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) Andrew Brigham.
(b) Alex Dilmer.
(c) Jon Lopez.
(d) David Hernandez.

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

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

14. How long is the apprenticeship at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 1 year.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 18 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what hotel was Gawande staying for the surgeon's convention?

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

4. What was the average amount of time that a keyboard operator in Australia would lose from work due to disabling arm pain?

5. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

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