Three surgeons and a clumsy cook go camping in the remote wilderness. The clumsy cook stumbles over the campfire as he is serving the surgeons, injuring himself and dumping hot stew on the hands of the surgeons.

The cook's injuries need surgical treatment. The surgeons' injuries are minor but open. It turns out they brought the equipment necessary for the cook's surgery with them, and they can use the campfire to sterilize the tools. But there are only two rubber gloves. Because of the different surgeons' skills, all three of the surgeons are needed to operate on the cook, in sequence.

How can this be done without any of them being exposed to the blood of any of the others?

(In reply to possibility... by DuCk)

I was thinking along those lines too, but when you said 'Surgeon 3 then takes surgeon 1's glove and put's it on, and then takes surgeon 2's glove and turns it inside out and put's it over the other glove' it should be the other way round (He puts surgeon 1's glove on upside down and then puts surgeon 2's glove on the normal way round.

Posted by Lewis on 2003-07-21 02:34:58