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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Konner characterize surgeons?
(a) Men who wanted to help people.
(b) Men who thrive on stress.
(c) Men who thrive on problem solving.
(d) Men who enjoyed making snap decisions.

2. What was Konner's previous training in?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Psychiatry.

3. What kind of treatment was Katherine Ballard most interested in administering?
(a) Talking cure.
(b) Hypnosis therapy.
(c) Drug treatment.
(d) Shock treatment.

4. Who took over the anesthesiology after Dr. Ramirez was finished bagging and intubating a patient?
(a) The patient's mother.
(b) The surgeon.
(c) A nurse-anesthesiologist.
(d) A nurse.

5. What outcome has Dr. Burdick tried to prevent in his practice?
(a) Discharging patients to mental hospitals.
(b) Letting patients bounce around between different wards and hospitals.
(c) Returning patients to the general public.
(d) Keeping patients in the hospital indefinitely.

6. What is intubation?
(a) Placing a tube into a patient's ear.
(b) Placing a tube into a patient's bladder.
(c) Placing a breathing tube into a patient's throat.
(d) Placing a tube for intravenous fluids into a patient's arm.

7. What difficulty did patient Edwards have as a result of surgery?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Memory.
(c) Balance.
(d) Motor skills.

8. What kinds of experiences prevent medical students from looking forward to initial encounters with patients?
(a) Prior experience as a nurse or volunteer.
(b) Car accidents.
(c) Severe illnesses.
(d) Phobias.

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

10. What had Petey begun to do at age seventeen?
(a) Attempt suicide.
(b) Assault people.
(c) Regress to childhood.
(d) Use street drugs.

11. What is the branch of psychiatric medicine that complements Freud's psychoanalysis?
(a) Isolation.
(b) Surgical treatment.
(c) Shock treatment.
(d) Drug treatment.

12. What does Konner say Dr. Ruskin bragged about having spent the weekend doing?
(a) Playing golf.
(b) Drinking.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Sleeping.

13. What had happened to the woman who was rolled into the ER?
(a) Pregnancy complications.
(b) Drug overdose.
(c) Stabbing.
(d) Car accident.

14. What was Konner convinced of, after Mike's mistake?
(a) Marty Wentworth practiced bad medicine.
(b) Surgery is a dangerous business.
(c) He was not surgeon material himself.
(d) Mike Colucci was never going to be a surgeon.

15. Where do first-year medical students' clinical experiences take place?
(a) By shadowing individual doctors.
(b) One-on-one tutorials.
(c) Small hospital groups.
(d) Large hospital groups.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the woman on the stretcher sent after Konner and his colleagues saw her in ER?

2. What had Konner been before starting med school?

3. What distinguished Peter Byron's patient care?

4. What is 'bagging' a patient?

5. How does Konner compare to the other students in his cohort?

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