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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Medicine II: Deathwatches.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the treatment Dr. Brass recommended for the Pickwickian syndrome case?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Antipsychotic drugs.
(c) Talk therapy.
(d) An anti-cancer drug.

2. What was patient Laura a candidate for?
(a) Cesarean section delivery.
(b) Mandatory sterilization.
(c) In vitro fertilization.
(d) Radiation treatment.

3. What organ did Konner remove during his first autopsy?
(a) Heart.
(b) Kidney.
(c) Gall bladder.
(d) Brain.

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

5. What does Konner say made his rounds poignant when he was working with Dr. Downing?
(a) Three patients were terminal.
(b) Dr. Downing was herself sick with cancer.
(c) The patients were children.
(d) One of the patients had been a famous singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Dr. Suskauer been before becoming the head of obstetrics?

2. What crude behavior does Konner describe from a resident physician?

3. What was Konner's status during the anecdote that opens the book?

4. How does Konner characterize the other medical students?

5. Why did Konner's procedure with the woman with gonorrhea take five times longer than the procedure should have taken?

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