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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which point of view does Konner NOT take in his description of his time in med school?
(a) Anthropologist.
(b) Husband and father.
(c) Educator.
(d) Gadfly.

2. What does Konner say is a benefit of obstetrics?
(a) The newborn babies.
(b) The sense that this was all normal.
(c) The glowing mothers.
(d) The respect for the patients.

3. What does Konner wonder at, during one of his deliveries?
(a) So many American women were routinely anaesthetized during birth.
(b) Babies can survive compression to pass through the birth canal.
(c) Women can survive the pain of labor.
(d) Hospitals are even required for child birth.

4. What starts the day in the gynecology rotation?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Rounds.
(c) Paperwork.
(d) Outpatients.

5. How does Konner say Dr. Greenspan was embroiled in a controversy?
(a) He defended a subordinate.
(b) He pursued a staff member.
(c) He published others' work.
(d) He faked some research results.

6. What were surgeons going to correct in patient Laura's laparotomy?
(a) Complications in her pregnancy.
(b) Tumors on her ovaries.
(c) Adhesions on her fallopian tubes.
(d) Cysts in her uterus.

7. What comment about Charlotte was red-penciled off her chart?
(a) She is friendly and cooperative.
(b) She appreciated kind attention.
(c) She cannot tolerate her own image.
(d) She is willing to work to improve her condition.

8. How does Konner characterize Lily Corwin?
(a) Combative.
(b) Kind and efficient.
(c) Brash and vulgar.
(d) Arrogant and ignorant.

9. How many hours a week did Konner work with Dr. Brass and the others on his rotation?
(a) 100.
(b) 80.
(c) 60.
(d) 40.

10. What does Konner say Dr. Brass criticized him for?
(a) Explaining the doctors' decisions to a patient.
(b) Making a patient more comfortable.
(c) Talking with a patient.
(d) Cleaning up after a patient.

11. How long was Konner away from the hospital for, as a result of this nomination?
(a) 48 hours.
(b) 36 hours.
(c) 18 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

12. Whose samples had been sent to the lab Konner was working in now?
(a) Dr. Mattingly's patients.
(b) Dr. Suskauer's patients.
(c) Dr. Brennan's patients.
(d) Professor Roth's patients.

13. Why was patient Geraldine's DNR order ignored?
(a) Bureaucratic confusion.
(b) Dr. Brass countermanded it.
(c) She had not had it properly notarized.
(d) It was not included in her chart.

14. What is the fourth year of med school designed to do?
(a) Allow students to broaden their experience before seeing patients of their own.
(b) Develop skills without direct responsibility.
(c) Give medical students responsibility for patient care.
(d) Give medical students a break before they are responsible for patients.

15. What is Konner's justification for not practicing medicine?
(a) He is using his talents in a better way.
(b) He is saving patients from his errors.
(c) He is saving society money.
(d) He is giving himself to his family instead.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the patient outcome of the treatment Dr. Brass recommended?

3. What was Dr. Harold Greenspan's field?

4. What does Konner say he brought with him as a university professor?

5. How does Konner say Dr. Downing responded to the woman whose sixty-five year old mother had just died?

(see the answer keys)

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