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

2. Where was Melvin Konner a medical student?
(a) Galen Memorial Hospital.
(b) Bay State Hospital.
(c) Beth Israel Hospital.
(d) Kings County Hospital.

3. What behavior of John Williams' embarrassed Konner?
(a) He was known to have affairs with the staff.
(b) He told a patient abruptly that they only had a few months to live.
(c) He callously described a patient's discomfort to a group of interns.
(d) He walked away from a patient's question.

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

5. How did Freddy Robertson handle the woman's purple finger?
(a) By lancing it and draining the blood.
(b) By sawing off her ring.
(c) By amputating it.
(d) By compressing the finger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is a rotation?

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

3. What did the surgeon order Konner to get rid of because it would be useless?

4. What was Konner's Uncle Bobby's role in Konner's life?

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

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