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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 did pediatrics appeal to Konner?
(a) Children had an easier time regaining their health after illness.
(b) It resembled his research on African children.
(c) It let him laugh more.
(d) It gave him more room to be aloof and scientific in his observations.

2. What does asepsis mean?
(a) With infection.
(b) Preventing infection.
(c) Without infection.
(d) Treating infection.

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

4. Who took over the anesthesiology after Dr. Ramirez was finished bagging and intubating a patient?
(a) A nurse.
(b) The surgeon.
(c) A nurse-anesthesiologist.
(d) The patient's mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was patient Petey's diagnosis?

2. How does Konner characterize surgeons' personalities?

3. How does Konner say anesthesiologists view surgeons?

4. How does Konner characterize Dr. Brass?

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

(see the answer key)

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