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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 year were the articles by Joseph Lister that were for sale?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1874.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1912.

2. What is the second most common reason why employees miss work?
(a) Chronic back pain.
(b) Flu.
(c) Cold.
(d) Migraines.

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

4. What type of a local anesthetic did the chief resident use when she put in a central line?
(a) Triocaine.
(b) Saxitoxin.
(c) Lidocaine.
(d) Benzocaine.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hotel was Gawande staying for the surgeon's convention?

2. What is the fear of Friday the thirteenth called?

3. Who originated the explanation of pain that has dominated much of medical history?

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 type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does it take so long before colleagues take effective action against a bad doctor?

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

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

4. Describe the technical exhibit hall.

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

6. How do surgeons learn to do new procedures once they are out of training?

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

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

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

10. What is a Terribly Quiet Chat and how effective can one be?

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