Can You Be BLACK and Make This?

Can you identify this condition?

A 38-year-old man was referred to our clinic with a 2-week history of painful lesions located on the penis. He had no past medical history for this event. During the first few days of onset, he had a fever (38.5oC) without any other systemic symptoms. Treatment with ketoconazole cream and topical steroids had worsened the lesions. A physical examination revealed a number of small ulcers with a ...

Can you identify this condition?

A 13-year-old boy presents with asymptomatic lesions involving the mucosal aspects of his upper and lower lips. The lesions have been increasing in size and number over the past 5 months. He is not sexually active, is not taking any medications, and does not have a family history of a similar condition. Skin examination reveals multiple soft, mucosa-coloured papules, 2 to 8 mm in length, some w...

Can you Identify This Malignancy?

A Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma B Benign multicystic peritoneal mesothelioma C Well-differentiated papillary mesothelioma History Mr. B. is a 39-year-old male with no significant medical history who began experiencing progressive abdominal girth and bloating. Ultrasound and CT of the abdomen and pelvis revealed moderate to large abdominal ascites. Ultrasound-guided paracentesis yielded 7 L ...

Can Other People Make You Less Creative?

This paper explains in layperson’s terms how an agent-based model was used to investigate the hypothesis that culture evolves more effectively when novelty-generating creative processes are tempered by imitation processes that preserve proven successful ideas. Using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution we found that (1) the optimal ratio of inventing to imitating ranged from 1:1 to ...

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