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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. Who was the San Diego surgeon working without a license who bungled some sex-change operations and amputated the leg of a healthy man?
(a) Martin David White.
(b) Thomas Andrew Martinson.
(c) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(d) John Ronald Brown.

2. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1992.

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

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

5. How much did a robotic surgery device cost that Gawande's department purchased?
(a) $1,000,000.
(b) $750,000.
(c) $980,000.
(d) $550,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?

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

3. How long is the apprenticeship at Shouldice Hospital?

4. What statistician described a classic example of imagining patterns where really there are none when he described the Germans' bombing patterns of South London in World War II?

5. How old was the woman that Gawande saw in the emergency room his first day as a surgical resident?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is an EKG?

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

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

4. What was it like at Gawande's hospital when it was time for the annual surgeons convention?

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

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

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

8. What was Hank Goodman's reputation before he lost his license?

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

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

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