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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Full Moon Friday the Thirteenth.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the chief resident in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?
(a) Andrew Brigham.
(b) David Hernandez.
(c) Alex Dilmer.
(d) Jon Lopez.

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

3. What were the occupations of Gawande's parents?
(a) Engineers.
(b) Lawyers.
(c) Orthodontists.
(d) Doctors.

4. How many companies were registered in attendance at the surgeons convention?
(a) Around 300 companies.
(b) About 900 companies.
(c) About 1700 companies.
(d) Some 1200 companies.

5. Who was the San Diego surgeon working without a license who bungled some sex-change operations and amputated the leg of a healthy man?
(a) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(b) Martin David White.
(c) John Ronald Brown.
(d) Thomas Andrew Martinson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?

2. When was it first suggested that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

3. What was the oxygen saturation of woman who Gawande treats at the beginning of "When Doctors Make Mistakes"?

4. What statistician described a classic example of imagining patterns where really there are none when he described the Germans' bombing patterns of South London in World War II?

5. When was the case of the badly infected knee that Goodman mishandled?

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