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

2. What criticism does Konner make of the surgery that went on for three hours?
(a) The patient should not have been operated on.
(b) The surgeon made mistakes even he could recognize.
(c) It could have been finished much sooner.
(d) The procedure was merely cosmetic.

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

4. How does Konner characterize the other medical students?
(a) Indifferent.
(b) Imposing.
(c) Burly.
(d) Naïve.

5. What does Konner say is a benefit of obstetrics?
(a) The sense that this was all normal.
(b) The glowing mothers.
(c) The newborn babies.
(d) The respect for the patients.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Konner characterize the anesthesiologist?

2. How does Konner compare to the other students in his cohort?

3. What kind of surgery did Konner watch Dr. Ruskin perform?

4. What does asepsis mean?

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

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