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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 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) 4 percent.
(b) 7 percent.
(c) 9 percent.
(d) 3 percent.

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

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

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

5. When installing a central line, how long is the wire that is inserted into the vein toward the vena cava ?
(a) 12 inches long.
(b) 3 feet long.
(c) 15 inches long.
(d) 2 feet long.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Gawande grow up?

4. How many times had the surgeons conference been held?

5. When did a man examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?

(see the answer key)

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