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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 book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?
(a) Fatal System Error.
(b) Human Error.
(c) No Room for Error.
(d) Errors and Medicine.

2. How many operating rooms are at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

3. What did Jack Nicklaus always have to have in his pocket when he played golf?
(a) A rabbit's foot.
(b) 3 pennies.
(c) A $2 bill.
(d) A lucky dime.

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

5. What color did Duke Ellington and his band members not wear during a show?
(a) Green.
(b) Black.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Orange.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What violation finally got Goodman in trouble?

3. At what convention center was the surgeon's conference held?

4. Where was the surgeon's conference held that Gawande attended?

5. What was wrong with Lee Tran?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why did Gawande recommend removing the appendix of a thirty-nine-year-old woman who did not fit the pattern for appendicitis?

5. Why aren't compassion and technology necessarily incompatible?

6. What is the Texas-sharpshooter fallacy?

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

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

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

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

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