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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Dr. Richard Sang's practice before he came to Shouldice?
(a) General surgeon.
(b) Family Practice.
(c) Internist.
(d) Obstetrics.

3. How long did it take a man to examine a stack of electrocardiograms to test his diagnostic skills against a computer?
(a) 2 days.
(b) A week.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 4 days.

4. How much money did Goodman make in a year when he was doing well?
(a) $500,000.
(b) $400,000.
(c) $250,000.
(d) $300,000.

5. What was the average amount of time that a keyboard operator in Australia would lose from work due to disabling arm pain?
(a) 74 days.
(b) 29 days.
(c) 53 days.
(d) 64 days.

6. Who introduced the term "health-care focused factory"?
(a) Rachel Erlinger.
(b) Ramona Wyatt.
(c) Regina Herzlinger.
(d) Rochelle Meslinger.

7. What was the oxygen saturation of woman who Gawande treats at the beginning of "When Doctors Make Mistakes"?
(a) 90 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 98 percent.
(d) 88 percent.

8. 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) John Ronald Brown.
(b) Samuel Grayson Phillips.
(c) Martin David White.
(d) Thomas Andrew Martinson.

9. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?
(a) Had a fractured finger.
(b) Had a fractured ankle.
(c) Had a piece of wire in her hand.
(d) Had a 3-inch screw in her foot.

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

11. What year were the articles by Joseph Lister that were for sale?
(a) 1881.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1867.
(d) 1874.

12. How old was the former orthopedic surgeon that Gawande writes about in "When Good Doctors Go Bad"?
(a) 48.
(b) 62.
(c) 56.
(d) 51.

13. What is the second most common reason why employees miss work?
(a) Migraines.
(b) Flu.
(c) Cold.
(d) Chronic back pain.

14. What color of blood indicates that the central line is inserted properly?
(a) Maroon.
(b) Brown.
(c) Rusty brown.
(d) Red.

15. What was the woman's alcohol level that Gawande had to attend to on a crisp winter Friday?
(a) 3 times the legal limit.
(b) A little over the legal limit.
(c) Just under the legal limit.
(d) About twice the legal limit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Gawande grow up?

2. How many patients a day did Goodman's physician's assistant say the man would see and not spend more than five minutes with them?

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

4. What surgery did Gawande assist with for a seventy-five-year-old woman?

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

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