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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. How many might attend an M&M at Gawande's hospital?
(a) 55 people.
(b) About 200 people.
(c) 75 people.
(d) Almost 100 people.

2. How many salespeople attended the surgeons convention?
(a) 6,100.
(b) 3,500.
(c) 5,300.
(d) 4,200.

3. How long is the apprenticeship at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 18 months.

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

5. How old was the patient Gawande saw while on trauma duty who had been shot in the buttock?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 20.
(d) 15.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many companies were registered in attendance at the surgeons convention?

2. What was wrong with Lee Tran?

3. How late were clinical sessions lined up until at the surgeons convention?

4. On an EKG, what is the downstroke at the start of a heart beat called?

5. Who examined a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against the computer?

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