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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. How many operating rooms are at Shouldice Hospital?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

2. 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) 1953.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1945.

3. How old was Victor Caselli?
(a) 61.
(b) 43.
(c) 54.
(d) 37.

4. When is the M&M at Gawande's hospital?
(a) Mondays at 10 a.m.
(b) Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
(c) Wednesdays at 2:00 p.m.
(d) Thursdays at 4 p.m.

5. How much did a robotic surgery device cost that Gawande's department purchased?
(a) $1,000,000.
(b) $750,000.
(c) $550,000.
(d) $980,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was wrong with the woman who Gawande saw in the emergency room on his first day as a surgical resident?

2. Who was the staff surgeon in charge of the procedure on a teenage knifing victim?

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

4. At what convention center was the surgeon's conference held?

5. How much money did Goodman make in a year when he was doing well?

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