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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Case of the Red Leg.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 4 percent.
(c) 9 percent.
(d) 3 percent.

3. How many of Noe's children died?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 10.

4. When did Christine Drury become an overnight television anchorwoman?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2001.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jack Nicklaus always have to have in his pocket when he played golf?

2. When is the M&M at Gawande's hospital?

3. What violation finally got Goodman in trouble?

4. How old was Iphigenia Jones when her doctor asked her whether she wanted a mastectomy or breast preserving treatment?

5. What was the average amount of time that a keyboard operator in Australia would lose from work due to disabling arm pain?

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