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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Medicine II: Deathwatches.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Konner say he tried to hide from the woman on whom he had to perform a neurological exam?
(a) He was sick himself.
(b) He had never performed this exam before.
(c) He thought she has severe problems.
(d) He was attracted to her.

3. What is intubation?
(a) Placing a tube into a patient's bladder.
(b) Placing a tube into a patient's ear.
(c) Placing a tube for intravenous fluids into a patient's arm.
(d) Placing a breathing tube into a patient's throat.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is 'bagging' a patient?

3. What does Konner say Dr. Ruskin bragged about having spent the weekend doing?

4. How did Freddy Robertson handle the woman's purple finger?

5. How does Konner say he reacts to this split between methodologies?

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