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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Man Who Couldn't Stop Eating.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Victor Caselli's occupation?
(a) Semi-truck driver.
(b) Assembly-line worker.
(c) Sanitation engineer.
(d) Heavy-machine operator and road construction contractor.

2. Who is the doctor who was convicted of murdering fifteen patients with lethal doses of narcotics?
(a) Gary Manson.
(b) David Andreson.
(c) Harold Shipman.
(d) Henry Whitman.

3. How many minutes without oxygen could lead to brain damage and perhaps death?
(a) 5 minutes.
(b) 3 minutes.
(c) 4 minutes.
(d) 6 minutes.

4. What country bans surgeons from practicing on animals?
(a) Australia.
(b) Canada.
(c) Britain.
(d) New Zealand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was the patient who needed a central line?

2. What time of day was it when Gawande had to leave the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?

3. When did Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall propose that the pain model be replaced with what they called the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?

4. What percent of patients with heart attacks who are seen in emergency rooms are mistakenly discharged?

5. Where did Gawande grow up?

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