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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 walk out of the room.
(d) They are taken on a gurney.

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

3. How many years of training did Gawande require to be a general surgeon?
(a) 6.
(b) 10.
(c) 8.
(d) 12.

4. How long is the apprenticeship at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 18 months.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 6 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Quinlan's occupation?

2. For how many years have there been workplace programs to focus on the proper way to lift among other things?

3. How many scientific studies did Gawande find that assessed whether or not luck actually does go bad on Friday the thirteenth?

4. What type of a necklace did New York Mets' pitcher Turk Wendell always wear?

5. How many studies did Gawande find when doing a computer search to attempt to identify "circalunidian" cycles?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Shouldice Hospital designed for hernia patients?

2. Why did Rowland Scott Quinlan have to give up his firm to his partners?

3. What one study did Gawande find that linked increased traffic accidents to Friday the thirteenth?

4. What was Hank Goodman's reputation before he lost his license?

5. What is the physician's dodge and why is it necessary?

6. Are doctors usually superstitious?

7. What is the secret of Shouldice Hospital's success with hernia repairs?

8. Why was there no reason to operate on Quinlan's back?

9. What was the shift like that Gawande worked on Friday the thirteenth?

10. Describe the Swedish study designed to see whether a computer could more accurately read an EKG than could a human.

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