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

2. What gave Konner an emotional boost during his rotation with Dr. Brass?
(a) Getting a National Book Award.
(b) Being called into a friend's birth.
(c) Getting a good evaluation.
(d) Selling his book proposal for 'Becoming a Doctor'.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Konner say anesthesiologists view surgeons?

2. What is 'bagging' a patient?

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

4. How many hours a week did Konner work with Dr. Brass and the others on his rotation?

5. What does asepsis mean?

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