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

2. What does asepsis mean?
(a) With infection.
(b) Without infection.
(c) Preventing infection.
(d) Treating infection.

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

4. How does Konner characterize his teachers in the basic clinical skills classes?
(a) The least successful teachers he ever had.
(b) The most impersonal teachers he had.
(c) The best teachers he had.
(d) The least interesting teachers he ever had.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What specialty does Konner decide to follow?

2. For what did John Williams set records?

3. How does Konner characterize his work with Dr. Haley?

4. What outcome has Dr. Burdick tried to prevent in his practice?

5. What restrictions did Konner have to observe after scrubbing in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Konner experience the medical world on his vacation?

2. What crude resident behavior was Konner appalled by?

3. How does Konner characterize his medical student colleagues?

4. How is Konner different from the other students in his group?

5. What does Konner say he finds unrealistic in TV doctor dramas?

6. Describe Konner's first 'Saturday Night Knife and Gun Club'.

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

8. How does Konner characterize Howard Cullen's condition?

9. How does Konner describe Gerald Edwards' brain surgery?

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

(see the answer keys)

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