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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. What did the article Konner find in his last week of surgery argue?
(a) Pharmaceutical companies were paying doctors to perform unsafe procedures.
(b) Malpractice insurance was raising the cost of everyone's care.
(c) America's standard of care was lower than most industrial nations'.
(d) Science came before patients in medical schools.

2. What difficulty did patient Edwards have as a result of surgery?
(a) Motor skills.
(b) Memory.
(c) Balance.
(d) Cancer.

3. Who did students meet with during initial basic clinical skills class?
(a) Doctors.
(b) Nurses.
(c) Patients' relatives.
(d) Patients.

4. What decision does Konner reaffirm during his visit with family?
(a) Not to practice medicine.
(b) Not to be a surgeon.
(c) To publish an anthropological piece on his time in med school.
(d) To write an expose about his time in med school.

5. Who does Konner say benefits from drugs for childhood hyperactivity?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Drug companies.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Konner say the younger students do not have, which older students do?

2. What does Konner say is the typical method of childbirth in the U.S.?

3. Who confirmed the nurse-anesthesiologist's concern that a patient not be released immediately after surgery?

4. What does asepsis mean?

5. What had Dr. Suskauer been before becoming the head of obstetrics?

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