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

2. What did Quinlan hurt when he fell off a plank at a construction site?
(a) Fractured his hip.
(b) Dislocated and fractured his shoulder.
(c) Crushed his ankle.
(d) Broke his femur.

3. How long had Caselli been married?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 25 years.
(c) 41 years.
(d) 18 years.

4. Where did Gawande grow up?
(a) Alpena, Michigan.
(b) Atlanta, Georgia.
(c) Athens, Ohio.
(d) Atlantic, Iowa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Since 1998, how many operations have been performed to stop severe blushing?

2. Who first proposed that a computer could read an EKG better than a human could?

3. What did Jack Nicklaus always have to have in his pocket when he played golf?

4. How old was the former orthopedic surgeon that Gawande writes about in "When Good Doctors Go Bad"?

5. How long might it take in most hospitals to repair a hernia?

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