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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Emergency Ward Surgery: No Man's Land.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Freddy Robertson handle the woman's purple finger?
(a) By lancing it and draining the blood.
(b) By compressing the finger.
(c) By sawing off her ring.
(d) By amputating it.

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

3. 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) An intensive care unit.
(d) Back home.

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

5. What is the immigrant neurosurgeon's rule, when Konner makes rounds with him?
(a) Spend as little time as possible with the patient.
(b) Talk to the patient.
(c) Read the chart first.
(d) Touch the patient.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Konner say patients almost always want doctors to do?

2. When was 'Becoming a Doctor' published?

3. Who did students meet with during initial basic clinical skills class?

4. What was Konner's status during the anecdote that opens the book?

5. Where was Melvin Konner a medical student?

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