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1. Hoffmann describes the Emergency Ward of a city hospital as if it were

a) a circus sideshow; b) a college campus; c) a medieval fair; d) a movie set.

2. According to the author, the Emergency Ward patients

a) are embarrassed about their afflictions and are reticent to discuss them; b) clamor for an audience and represent their afflictions as if they were wares for sale; c) are complaining and difficult for physicians to deal with; d) reflect the violence of urban ghettos.

3. Hoffman admits that the atmosphere of the Emergency Ward is not always convivial, so that when the action picks up, the physician’s sole priority is

a) to save time, b) to get to the end of the shift, c) to minimize losses and survive, d) to ask for a transfer to another hospital unit.

4. The Emergency Ward is affectionately known as

a) “The Dump”, b) “The War Zone”, c) “The Hellhole”, d) “The Pit”.

5. Hoffman states that he became discouraged working on the wards for the acutely ill because he came to realize that

a) despite their efforts, physicians seldom had much effect on their patients’ diseases, b) physicians were not the dedicated professionals he assumed them to be, c) modern medical science has not advanced as much as the public thinks, d) the quality of medical care had deteriorated because of extensive budget cuts.

6. According to Hoffman, on the first day working in the Emergency Ward, he felt

a) despair, b) a sense of anticipation, c) cautious and wary, d) incompetent.

7. One woman, a street dweller, is admitted as a “social admission”, meaning that

a) she has no money to pay, b) she is desperately ill, c) she will be provided with food and a good night’s rest, d) she will be sent to a detoxification unit.

8. By the time his shift ended at 9:00 a.m., Hoffman states that he had

a) seen a large slice of illness and of life, b) heard every imaginable complaint and demand, c) misinterpreted medical evidence and wrongly diagnosed several patients, d) been through a combat zone.