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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was the former orthopedic surgeon that Gawande writes about in "When Good Doctors Go Bad"?
(a) 48.
(b) 56.
(c) 62.
(d) 51.

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

4. How large was the fourth patient that Gawande had to insert a central line?
(a) About 195 pounds.
(b) About 250 pounds.
(c) About 380 pounds.
(d) Over 300 pounds.

5. Who originated the explanation of pain that has dominated much of medical history?
(a) Baruch Spinoza.
(b) Henry K. Beecher.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Gottfried Leibnitz.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many siblings does Goodman have?

3. What did Jack Nicklaus always have to have in his pocket when he played golf?

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

5. What did Tommy Lasorda always eat before a game when he managed the Los Angeles Dodgers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the secret of Shouldice Hospital's success with hernia repairs?

2. What was Hank Goodman's reputation before he lost his license?

3. Why aren't compassion and technology necessarily incompatible?

4. Why did Rowland Scott Quinlan have to give up his firm to his partners?

5. Why was Gawande concerned about the patient who had been shot in the buttock?

6. Why is there often no mechanical explanation for severe back pain?

7. What type of complications had occurred from residents putting in a central line?

8. Describe the Swedish study designed to see whether a computer could more accurately read an EKG than could a human.

9. What is the problem of what might be called everyday bad doctors?

10. Why was there no reason to operate on Quinlan's back?

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