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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. At what convention center was the surgeon's conference held?
(a) Chicago Convention Center.
(b) McCormick Place.
(c) Donald E. Stevens Convention Center.
(d) Chicagoland Conference Center.

2. When was the case of the badly infected knee that Goodman mishandled?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1991.

3. How heavy was the woman that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) About 130 pounds.
(b) More than 200 pounds.
(c) About 300 pounds.
(d) About 175 pounds.

4. What was wrong with Lee Tran?
(a) A tumor.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Bronchitis.
(d) The flu.

5. What percent of patients with heart attacks who are seen in emergency rooms are mistakenly discharged?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) About 10 percent.
(c) Between 1 and 5 percent.
(d) Between 2 and 8 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much do hernia operations cost at Shouldice Hospital?

2. Who directs the chronic-pain treatment center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston?

3. What was the woman's alcohol level that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?

4. How many pages were in the book that listed the schedule of programs at the surgeons convention?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the Texas-sharpshooter fallacy?

5. What is an EKG?

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

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

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

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

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

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