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

2. What strategy did Dr. Greenspan advocate for learning medicine?
(a) Taking a case by case approach.
(b) An exhaustive encyclopedic approach.
(c) A community of experts sharing diagnoses approach.
(d) A trial and error approach.

3. What criticism does Konner make of the surgery that went on for three hours?
(a) The patient should not have been operated on.
(b) It could have been finished much sooner.
(c) The surgeon made mistakes even he could recognize.
(d) The procedure was merely cosmetic.

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

5. Who confirmed the nurse-anesthesiologist's concern that a patient not be released immediately after surgery?
(a) The Emergency Ward chief.
(b) The chief of Anesthesiology.
(c) Konner.
(d) The surgeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Konner characterize surgeons' personalities?

2. In whose eye did Konner see a compassionate tear?

3. How does Konner say Dr. Brass reacted to his work?

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

5. What is intubation?

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