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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Obstetrics: The Anatomical Volcano.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Konner say he believes about obstetrics?
(a) It should be practiced by women.
(b) It should be run by scientists.
(c) It should be focused on preventative health and health maintenance.
(d) A woman's reproductive system should be allowed to run its course without interference.

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

4. What distinguished Peter Byron's patient care?
(a) He was incompetent and his heavy drinking obscured his medicine.
(b) He was brusque and aloof.
(c) He went out of his way to take care of his patients and their families.
(d) He was gentle and non-disruptive.

5. What part of child birth didn't Konner like?
(a) The sterile hospital environment.
(b) The women's pain.
(c) The doctors' arrogance.
(d) The fathers' sympathetic sufferings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Petey begun to do at age seventeen?

2. What does asepsis mean?

3. What feelings in the doctors does Konner say he understood after spending time with long-term incurable patients?

4. What luxury did Konner's relationship with Dr. Haley allow him?

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

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