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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How heavy was the woman that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) More than 200 pounds.
(b) About 175 pounds.
(c) About 130 pounds.
(d) About 300 pounds.

3. For luck, what did Michael Jordon always wear under his Chicago Bulls uniform?
(a) Blue boxer shorts.
(b) Heart boxer shorts.
(c) North Carolina boxer shorts.
(d) Striped boxer shorts.

4. What color did Duke Ellington and his band members not wear during a show?
(a) Orange.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Black.

5. For over a decade, how many hours did Goodman work a week?
(a) 40-50.
(b) 50-60.
(c) 80-100 hours.
(d) 70-80.

6. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?
(a) Surgery to remove pancreatic cancer.
(b) Surgery to remove colon cancer.
(c) Surgery to remove an appendix.
(d) Surgery to put a screw in a broken leg.

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

8. How many electrocardiograms did a man examine to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 3,215.
(b) 2,240.
(c) 675.
(d) 1,775.

9. When does the American College of Surgeons convention take place?
(a) April.
(b) July.
(c) Mid-October.
(d) September.

10. What type of a local anesthetic did the chief resident use when she put in a central line?
(a) Saxitoxin.
(b) Triocaine.
(c) Lidocaine.
(d) Benzocaine.

11. When is the M&M at Gawande's hospital?
(a) Mondays at 10 a.m.
(b) Thursdays at 4 p.m.
(c) Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m.
(d) Tuesdays at 5 p.m.

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

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

14. What type of surgery had the patient who needed a central line had a week earlier?
(a) Hernia surgery.
(b) Abdominal surgery.
(c) Removal of his appendix.
(d) Heart surgery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What violation finally got Goodman in trouble?

3. How much do hernia operations cost at Shouldice Hospital?

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. 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?

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