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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Emergency Ward Surgery: No Man's Land.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long is a rotation?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) A semester.
(c) Two months.
(d) Six months.

2. Where was the woman on the stretcher sent after Konner and his colleagues saw her in ER?
(a) An intensive care unit.
(b) To the morgue.
(c) Back home.
(d) An operating room.

3. How does Konner characterize his teachers in the basic clinical skills classes?
(a) The least successful teachers he ever had.
(b) The least interesting teachers he ever had.
(c) The most impersonal teachers he had.
(d) The best teachers he had.

4. What was Konner's experience in Africa?
(a) As a soldier.
(b) As an anthropologist.
(c) As a nurse.
(d) As a pilot.

5. Which is NOT one of the four laws of medicine?
(a) Learn by experimenting.
(b) Keep doing things that work.
(c) Do nothing if you don't know.
(d) Never call a surgeon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Konner say it took for the motorcycle accident victim to recover enough to be transferred to O.R.?

2. How did Dr. Feldstein make an impression on Konner?

3. What had happened to the woman who was rolled into the ER?

4. What behavior of John Williams' embarrassed Konner?

5. What is the immigrant neurosurgeon's rule, when Konner makes rounds with him?

(see the answer key)

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