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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Psychiatry: The Mind-Body Problem.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the prognosis for the patients Konner sees under Dr. Burdick?
(a) They may improve and be discharged with drugs.
(b) They can be released after a talking cure identifies and cures their neurosis.
(c) They will not return to normal lives.
(d) They will likely spend the rest of their lives in and out of hospitals.

2. What feelings in the doctors does Konner say he understood after spending time with long-term incurable patients?
(a) Compassion.
(b) Animosity.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Patience.

3. How does Konner say he reacts to this split between methodologies?
(a) He feels conflicted.
(b) He prefers an altogether different approach.
(c) He sides with the psychopharmacologists.
(d) He sides with Freud.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mike Colucci do by mistake?

2. What restrictions did Konner have to observe after scrubbing in?

3. How does Konner characterize shock therapy?

4. What does asepsis mean?

5. What did Konner think was unrealistic about the doctor he saw on TV?

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