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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many minutes without oxygen could lead to brain damage and perhaps death?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 4 minutes.
(c) 6 minutes.
(d) 3 minutes.

2. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?
(a) Air Force.
(b) Navy.
(c) Marines.
(d) Army.

3. At any given time, approximately what percent of practicing physicians are unfit to see patients?
(a) 3-5 percent.
(b) 5-6 percent.
(c) 1-2 percent.
(d) 7-8 percent.

4. What did Tommy Lasorda always eat before a game when he managed the Los Angeles Dodgers?
(a) Linguine.
(b) Prime rib.
(c) Macaroni and cheese.
(d) Quiche.

5. 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) Lance Bridger.
(c) Brandon Wyatt.
(d) William Feller.

6. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1991.

7. 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) 30.
(b) 40.
(c) 25.
(d) 35.

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

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

10. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?
(a) 3,500.
(b) 6,100.
(c) 4,200.
(d) 5,300.

11. 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) Branson Smith.
(d) James Burt.

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

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

14. What was wrong with Lee Tran?
(a) Pneumonia.
(b) Bronchitis.
(c) The flu.
(d) A tumor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the American College of Surgeons convention take place?

2. What violation finally got Goodman in trouble?

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

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. What percent of patients with heart attacks who are seen in emergency rooms are mistakenly discharged?

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