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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Konner say was keeping him tired?
(a) Problems in his personal life.
(b) His day job.
(c) Trying to do several rotations at once.
(d) Nightly assignments.

2. How often were walk-rounds performed in the psychiatric ward?
(a) Three times a week.
(b) Twice a day.
(c) Daily.
(d) Once a week.

3. Who did students meet with during initial basic clinical skills class?
(a) Patients' relatives.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Patients.
(d) Nurses.

4. What insight did Konner get over his break?
(a) His father was sick, and he saw the hospital through his eyes.
(b) He traveled, and knew what it was like to be out of his element.
(c) He was sick, and saw illness from the patient's perspective.
(d) He had heartburn, and saw that drugs fixed it immediately.

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

6. What did Konner find for the street person who came in with a minor injury?
(a) A clean syringe.
(b) A bottle of alcohol.
(c) An empty bed.
(d) A place to stay.

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

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

9. What medical term does Konner use to describe his book?
(a) A missed heartbeat.
(b) A radical treatment.
(c) An orchid in the attic.
(d) A compensatory pause.

10. What did patient Francis Giannetti discover when he came into the hospital with leg cramps from jogging?
(a) Brain cancer.
(b) Heart disease.
(c) Alzheimers.
(d) Thyroid issues.

11. When did walk-rounds begin in the Emergency Ward?
(a) 8:00 p.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) Twelve noon.
(d) 4 a.m.

12. What is 'bagging' a patient?
(a) Breathing for them with a rubber bag.
(b) Covering a patient's head so they cannot see surgery.
(c) Putting a deceased patient in a body bag.
(d) Giving a bag to a nauseous patient.

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

14. For how long has Konner wanted to study medicine?
(a) Since middle school.
(b) Since high school.
(c) Since college.
(d) All his life.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Konner say he reacts to this split between methodologies?

3. What was Konner convinced of, after Mike's mistake?

4. How does Konner say anesthesiologists view surgeons?

5. What procedure did Konner participate in with David Milano?

(see the answer keys)

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