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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 his work with Dr. Haley?
(a) He felt like a fraud.
(b) He felt like a beginner.
(c) He felt like a doctor of equal stature.
(d) He felt like he didn't know anything.

2. At what age did Konner begin his first rotation?
(a) 22.
(b) 36.
(c) 28.
(d) 41.

3. How many medical students was Konner grouped with for his rotation in psychiatry?
(a) Twelve.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Nine.
(d) Six.

4. Which is NOT one of the four laws of medicine?
(a) Keep doing things that work.
(b) Never call a surgeon.
(c) Learn by experimenting.
(d) Do nothing if you don't know.

5. 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.

6. What decision does Konner reaffirm during his visit with family?
(a) Not to be a surgeon.
(b) Not to practice medicine.
(c) To write an expose about his time in med school.
(d) To publish an anthropological piece on his time in med school.

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

8. Why did pediatrics appeal to Konner?
(a) It let him laugh more.
(b) Children had an easier time regaining their health after illness.
(c) It gave him more room to be aloof and scientific in his observations.
(d) It resembled his research on African children.

9. How does Konner characterize the other medical students?
(a) Burly.
(b) Imposing.
(c) Naïve.
(d) Indifferent.

10. Where did Konner go at the end of his last shift, when he wanted to reflect on the trauma patients he treated?
(a) The chapel.
(b) For a walk with another intern.
(c) The bar.
(d) Home.

11. What does Konner say patients almost always want doctors to do?
(a) Fix all their problems.
(b) Give them pills.
(c) Leave them in peace.
(d) Talk with them.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Konner find for the street person who came in with a minor injury?

2. What distinguished Peter Byron's patient care?

3. What does asepsis mean?

4. What medical term does Konner use to describe his book?

5. What kind of treatment was Katherine Ballard most interested in administering?

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