1. At the beginning of Chapter 1, how many weeks had Gawande been in training?
(a) 4 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 3 months.
(d) 4 months.

2. What percent of patients regain weight after gastric-bypass surgery?
(a) About 25 percent.
(b) 1 to 10 percent.
(c) About 35 percent.
(d) 5 to 20 percent.

3. How much did Caselli weigh before the surgery?
(a) 428 pounds.
(b) 471 pounds.
(c) 512 pounds.
(d) 398 pounds.

4. What type of a necklace did New York Mets' pitcher Turk Wendell always wear?
(a) A silver four-leaf clover on a chain.
(b) Cross necklace.
(c) A St. Christopher medal on a chain.
(d) Animal-fang necklace.

5. When did Ronald Melzack and Patrick Wall propose that the pain model be replaced with what they called the Gate-Control Theory of Pain?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statistician described a classic example of imagining patterns where really there are none when he described the Germans' bombing patterns of South London in World War II?

2. How many hours did it take to cut and strip off the necrotic outer layers of Bratton's muscle the first time?

3. How old was Mr. Jolly when he died?

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

5. What type of a local anesthetic did the chief resident use when she put in a central line?

(see the answer key)

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