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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - Nine Thousand Surgeons.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove colon cancer.
(b) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.
(c) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(d) Surgery to remove an appendix.

3. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) 1984.
(b) 1991.
(c) 1987.
(d) 1990.

4. How many hospital patients suffered complications from treatment that prolonged their hospital stay or resulted in disability or death according to a Harvard Medical Practice Study in 1991?
(a) 7 percent.
(b) 3 percent.
(c) 9 percent.
(d) 4 percent.

5. What color of blood indicates that the central line is inserted properly?
(a) Brown.
(b) Rusty brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Maroon.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What time of day was it when Gawande had to leave the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?

4. How many central lines did Gawande try before succeeding on his own?

5. How do patients leave the operating room at Shouldice after having surgery?

(see the answer key)

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