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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I - When Good Doctors Go Bad.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How large was the fourth patient that Gawande had to insert a central line?
(a) About 380 pounds.
(b) About 250 pounds.
(c) Over 300 pounds.
(d) About 195 pounds.

2. On an EKG, what is the downstroke at the start of a heart beat called?
(a) T wave.
(b) Q wave.
(c) S wave.
(d) R wave.

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

4. How do patients leave the operating room at Shouldice after having surgery?
(a) They use a walker.
(b) They leave in a wheelchair.
(c) They are taken on a gurney.
(d) They walk out of the room.

5. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?
(a) David Angston.
(b) Michael Bartholomew.
(c) Lars Edenbrandt.
(d) William Baxt.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?

3. What book did British psychologist James Reason write about errors?

4. How long do hernia operations take at Shouldice Hospital?

5. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many weeks had Gawande been in training?

(see the answer key)

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