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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. What does Konner say was keeping him tired?
(a) His day job.
(b) Nightly assignments.
(c) Trying to do several rotations at once.
(d) Problems in his personal life.

2. What is 'bagging' a patient?
(a) Putting a deceased patient in a body bag.
(b) Breathing for them with a rubber bag.
(c) Covering a patient's head so they cannot see surgery.
(d) Giving a bag to a nauseous patient.

3. How does Konner say Dr. Brass reacted to his work?
(a) She ignored it.
(b) She corrected it.
(c) She praised it.
(d) She nit-picked it.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Why was patient Geraldine's DNR order ignored?

4. Who gave the order to have Geraldine intubated?

5. What was Dr. Brass' reaction when Konner talked to her about her management style?

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