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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 originated the explanation of pain that has dominated much of medical history?
(a) Henry K. Beecher.
(b) Gottfried Leibnitz.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Baruch Spinoza.

2. How old was the woman that Gawande saw in the emergency room his first day as a surgical resident?
(a) Mid 30s.
(b) Early 30s.
(c) Late 20s.
(d) About 40.

3. Who is the doctor who was convicted of murdering fifteen patients with lethal doses of narcotics?
(a) Harold Shipman.
(b) Henry Whitman.
(c) Gary Manson.
(d) David Andreson.

4. When is the M&M at Gawande's hospital?
(a) Thursdays at 4 p.m.
(b) Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m.
(c) Mondays at 10 a.m.
(d) Tuesdays at 5 p.m.

5. How many pages were in the book that listed the schedule of programs at the surgeons convention?
(a) 149.
(b) 388.
(c) 78.
(d) 237.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color did Duke Ellington and his band members not wear during a show?

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

3. 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?

4. How heavy was the woman that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?

5. How much did a robotic surgery device cost that Gawande's department purchased?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Texas-sharpshooter fallacy?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What is an EKG?

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

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