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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How many operating rooms are at Shouldice Hospital?

3. What was Quinlan's occupation?

4. What branch of military service did Goodman serve in?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why aren't compassion and technology necessarily incompatible?

2. What is an EKG?

3. Why did Gawande have to leave a teenage knifing victim and go tend to another emergency?

4. Why was Gawande concerned about the patient who had been shot in the buttock?

5. What did Gawande watch during the afternoon of his first day at the surgeons convention?

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

7. Why do many experts believe that the M&M is a shabby approach to analyzing error and improving performance in medicine?

8. What is a Terribly Quiet Chat and how effective can one be?

9. What was it like at Gawande's hospital when it was time for the annual surgeons convention?

10. What type of complications had occurred from residents putting in a central line?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Argue whether or not medicine can or should be automated as much as possible. Use examples from Complications.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why autopsy can be used as a tool in medicine.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, explain why Gawande believes that medicine is an imperfect science.

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