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

2. What percent of Americans does a 1995 poll show believe that the moon alters individual behavior?
(a) 16 percent.
(b) 38 percent.
(c) 57 percent.
(d) 43 percent.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Dr. Richard Sang's practice before he came to Shouldice?

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

3. Where did Gawande grow up?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Gawande have to leave a teenage knifing victim and go tend to another emergency?

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

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

4. Describe the technical exhibit hall.

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

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

7. What is an EKG?

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

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

10. What did Gawande watch during the afternoon of his first day at the surgeons convention?

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