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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. For how many years have there been workplace programs to focus on the proper way to lift among other things?
(a) 60 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 45 years.
(d) 20 years.

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

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

4. Who was the gynecologist from Ohio who subjected hundreds of women when they had been anesthetized for other procedures to bizarre disfiguring procedures that he called the Surgery of Love?
(a) Branson Smith.
(b) James Burt.
(c) Charles Neeley.
(d) David Zaner.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?

2. When did Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall propose that the pain model be replaced with what they called the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?

3. How many scientific studies did Gawande find that assessed whether or not luck actually does go bad on Friday the thirteenth?

4. At any given time, approximately what percent of practicing physicians are unfit to see patients?

5. What color of blood indicates that the central line is inserted properly?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the first program that Gawande attended at the surgeons convention?

2. What are some problems with malpractice suits as a remedy for preventing harm to patients?

3. What is the Texas-sharpshooter fallacy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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