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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ward Surgery: Crossing the Boundary.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Konner say the younger students do not have, which older students do?
(a) Technical expertise.
(b) Fear.
(c) Political connections.
(d) Intuition.

2. What did interns do after rounds?
(a) Start to study.
(b) Begin assignments.
(c) Write up the rounds.
(d) Wait for patients to come in.

3. What does a retractor do?
(a) Stops bleeding.
(b) Holds skin open.
(c) Drains blood from a body cavity.
(d) Applies pressure to a wound.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did walk-rounds begin in the Emergency Ward?

2. What does asepsis mean?

3. How does Konner characterize his teachers in the basic clinical skills classes?

4. What behavior of John Williams' embarrassed Konner?

5. How does Konner characterize Freddy Robertson?

(see the answer key)

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