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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 Dr. Ringler?
(a) Ambitious.
(b) Sensitive and much loved.
(c) Arrogant.
(d) Incompetent.

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

3. What insight did Konner get over his break?
(a) He was sick, and saw illness from the patient's perspective.
(b) He traveled, and knew what it was like to be out of his element.
(c) His father was sick, and he saw the hospital through his eyes.
(d) He had heartburn, and saw that drugs fixed it immediately.

4. What is intubation?
(a) Placing a breathing tube into a patient's throat.
(b) Placing a tube into a patient's bladder.
(c) Placing a tube for intravenous fluids into a patient's arm.
(d) Placing a tube into a patient's ear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'bagging' a patient?

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

3. How long a break does Konner get at Christmas?

4. Who took over the anesthesiology after Dr. Ramirez was finished bagging and intubating a patient?

5. What was the surgeons response when Dr. Ramirez asked Konner to intubate?

(see the answer key)

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