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

2. 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.

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

4. Who directs the chronic-pain treatment center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston?
(a) Dr. Robert Edgington.
(b) Dr. Marshall Davidson.
(c) Dr. Edgar Ross.
(d) Dr. Wyatt Irving.

5. Who is the doctor who was convicted of murdering fifteen patients with lethal doses of narcotics?
(a) Harold Shipman.
(b) Henry Whitman.
(c) Gary Manson.
(d) David Andreson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?

2. At any given time, approximately what percent of practicing physicians are unfit to see patients?

3. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?

4. What were the occupations of Gawande's parents?

5. When was the case of the badly infected knee that Goodman mishandled?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where can doctors candidly discuss medical mistakes?

3. How is Shouldice Hospital designed for hernia patients?

4. What is the newest theory of pain proposed by Melzack after abandoning the Gate-Control Theory?

5. What is the most important criteria for becoming a surgeon?

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

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

8. What is the Texas-sharpshooter fallacy?

9. Why do many experts believe that the M&M is a shabby approach to analyzing error and improving performance in medicine?

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

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