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Zak : My wife made me come along because she says this looks a bit suspicious.
Doctor : Let’s have a look. Have you always had this?
Yes, I have. But it used to be round, more or less. It seems to have changed over the last few
Zak :
months.
Mm, the shape’s fairly irregular, isn’t it? And the edge is not clearly marked. How about the
Doctor :
color? Has that changed too?
Zak : It has, yes. It was always brown, but now it’s much darker in parts.
Right. And just feeling it with my finger, it feels quite hard and crusty on the top. Does it itch
Doctor :
at all?

Zak : Yes, it’s extremely itchy. It bleeds sometimes when I scratch it. Is it something to worry about?
Well, it’s certainly worth checking out, especially as you have really fair skin. What I’ll do is
Doctor : make an appointment for you to have a biopsy, so they can have a look at the skin cells under
the microscope.

Read the dialog and look at the statements below.
Write TRUE if the statement is true
FALSE if the statement is false
NOT GIVEN if the information is not given in the dialog

The first one has been done for you as an example.

The patient decided to see the doctor after his spouse asked him to do so. (T/ F / NG)

1. The skin condition that the man has is used to be circular. (T/ F / NG)
2. The condition of the skin manages to stay the same through the course of time. (T/ F / NG)
3. The color of the skin disease somehow becomes pinkish. (T/ F / NG)

4. When touched, the texture of the disease is not rough. (T/ F / NG)

5. The man need to have the skin tested at the laboratory. (T/ F / NG)

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