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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Medicine I: A Failure of the Heart.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Konner characterize his work with Dr. Haley?
(a) He felt like a beginner.
(b) He felt like he didn't know anything.
(c) He felt like a doctor of equal stature.
(d) He felt like a fraud.

2. What does Konner say Dr. Ruskin bragged about having spent the weekend doing?
(a) Playing golf.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Chopping wood.

3. Why was patient Geraldine's DNR order ignored?
(a) She had not had it properly notarized.
(b) Bureaucratic confusion.
(c) It was not included in her chart.
(d) Dr. Brass countermanded it.

4. What was patient Petey's diagnosis?
(a) ADHD.
(b) Aspergers syndrome.
(c) Down syndrome.
(d) Schizophrenia.

5. What had Petey begun to do at age seventeen?
(a) Regress to childhood.
(b) Attempt suicide.
(c) Assault people.
(d) Use street drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Konner say Dr. Brass criticized him for?

2. What is 'bagging' a patient?

3. What decision does Konner reaffirm during his visit with family?

4. What strategy did Dr. Greenspan advocate for learning medicine?

5. How does Konner say anesthesiologists view surgeons?

(see the answer key)

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