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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was the nature of the first operation in which Konner participated?
2. What distinguished Peter Byron's patient care?
3. What did patient Francis Giannetti discover when he came into the hospital with leg cramps from jogging?
4. What feelings in the doctors does Konner say he understood after spending time with long-term incurable patients?
5. How does Konner characterize Dr. Brennan's medical skills?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Konner characterize the split between theories of psychiatric medicine?
2. How does Konner characterize his medical student colleagues?
3. How does Konner characterize the anesthesiologist's job?
4. What was Konner's experience working with Dr. Haley in pediatric outpatient services?
5. How does Konner characterize Howard Cullen's condition?
6. What effect does Konner's opening anecdote have as a first taste of the book?
7. What were Konner's reasons fro becoming a doctor?
8. What are Konner's feelings about surgery?
9. How is Konner different from the other students in his group?
10. How does Konner contrast American medical diagnoses to African children's lives?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What effect did medical training have on Konner as a man outside of medical training? How did his training affect his marriage and his family? What were his wife's views on his training? What are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping his personal life out of the book?
Essay Topic 2
What are the different narrative threads Konner weaves throughout 'Becoming a Doctor'? One is the simple chronological experience of med school. What developments take place, and how does Konner's personality, or how do his attitudes about medicine or illness or his own identity change throughout the course of the book? Where do these themes intersect? How are they developed?
Essay Topic 3
How does Konner balance scientific medicine against humanitarian interest in his experience as a medical student? How does his balance differ from or resemble the balance other medical students strike?
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