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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Konner characterize shock therapy?
(a) Violent and dehumanizing.
(b) Mild compared with surgery.
(c) Non-invasive.
(d) Ineffectual.

3. What was Scott Lucas' role?
(a) To get the woman's clothes off.
(b) To reinflate the woman's lung.
(c) To take blood.
(d) To test the woman's blood type.

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

5. Why did Konner's procedure with the woman with gonorrhea take five times longer than the procedure should have taken?
(a) He was confused by the woman's symptoms, and it took him longer to rule out certain complications.
(b) He tried to heal her emotionally.
(c) He was interested in the woman's story, and listened to her talk.
(d) He thought the woman's chart had been written up incorrectly.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Konner characterize Dr. Brennan's medical skills?

2. What is the branch of psychiatric medicine that complements Freud's psychoanalysis?

3. How does Konner say anesthesiologists view surgeons?

4. What did Konner think was unrealistic about the doctor he saw on TV?

5. What difficulty did patient Edwards have as a result of surgery?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the process of scrubbing in.

2. What was Konner's second experience in anesthesiology like?

3. How does Konner say that he dealt with Bigelow, the street person?

4. How does Konner contrast American medical diagnoses to African children's lives?

5. How does Konner say med school affected him personally?

6. What was Konner's experience working with Dr. Haley in pediatric outpatient services?

7. What mistake was made during gall bladder surgery on an obese woman, and what conclusion did this lead Konner to make?

8. How does Konner characterize the split between theories of psychiatric medicine?

9. What was Edwards' condition after surgery?

10. What were Konner's reasons fro becoming a doctor?

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