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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. What was the average amount of time that a keyboard operator in Australia would lose from work due to disabling arm pain?
(a) 74 days.
(b) 29 days.
(c) 53 days.
(d) 64 days.

2. How late were clinical sessions lined up until at the surgeons convention?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 8 p.m.
(c) 10:30 p.m.
(d) Midnight.

3. When did Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall propose that the pain model be replaced with what they called the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1953.

4. What is the fear of Friday the thirteenth called?
(a) Zemmiphobia.
(b) Acrophobia.
(c) Paraskevidekatriaphobia.
(d) Ballistophobia.

5. How many studies did Gawande find when doing a computer search to attempt to identify "circalunidian" cycles?
(a) 75.
(b) 50.
(c) 25.
(d) 100.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of a necklace did New York Mets' pitcher Turk Wendell always wear?

2. How much money did Goodman make in a year when he was doing well?

3. At what convention center was the surgeon's conference held?

4. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

5. Who introduced the term "health-care focused factory"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some problems with malpractice suits as a remedy for preventing harm to patients?

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

3. What one study did Gawande find that linked increased traffic accidents to Friday the thirteenth?

4. What did Gawande have in his pockets during his first weeks of surgical training?

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

6. How is Shouldice Hospital designed for hernia patients?

7. What is the physician's dodge and why is it necessary?

8. What was the shift like that Gawande worked on Friday the thirteenth?

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

10. What was the first program that Gawande attended at the surgeons convention?

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