Step 1 Stereotypes

Question 1

African Americans have…

Answer 1

…sarcoid and sickle cell.

Question 2

Africans have…

Answer 2

…Burkitt’s lymphoma, malaria, sleeping sickness, or worse.

Question 3

White kids have…

Answer 3

…cystic fibrosis and can’t dance.

Question 4

Jewish girls have…

Answer 4

…ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease.

Question 5

Eastern Europeans have…

Answer 5

…glycogen storage diseases.

Question 6

French people (particularly from Paris, that dirty, dirty city) have..

Answer 6

…toxoplasmosis.

Question 7

Asians have..

Answer 7

…alpha thalassemia, Takayasu arteritis, and Asian glow.

Question 8

Americans are…

Answer 8

…fat.

Question 9

Mexican Kids have…

Answer 9

…lead poisoning.

Question 10

Central Americans have…

Answer 10

…Chagas disease and can dance.

Question 11

Indians (from India) have…

Answer 11

…tuberculosis and oral cancer from chewing Betel nuts.

Question 12

Gorgeous Mediterranian men have…

Answer 12

…beta thalassemia.

Question 13

Japanese people have…

Answer 13

…gastric carcinoma and ninja skills.

Question 14

Peruvians have…

Answer 14

…huge lungs, hypoxia, and polycythemia.

Question 15

Native Americans are…

Answer 15

…obese, have diabetes, high cholesterol, gallstones. #murica

Question 16

Immigrants all have…

Answer 16

…a disease that we can prevent with a vaccine.

Question 17

Lawyers have…

Answer 17

…sexually transmitted diseases.

Question 18

Dentists and aerospace workers have…

Answer 18

…berylliosis.

Question 19

Explosives experts / Explosives plant workers get…

Answer 19

…“monday morning headaches” from nitroglycerin withdrawal.

Question 20

Coal miners have…

Answer 20

…CWP, TB, and RA.

Question 21

Cave explorers have…

Answer 21

…cryptococcus.

Question 22

Football players, wrestlers, and weight lifters are…

Answer 22

…all taking anabolic steroids.

Question 23

Sheepherders have…

Answer 23

…echinococcosis.

Question 24

Radiologists have…

Answer 24

…any blood cancer except CLL.

Question 25

Nurses and pharmacists have…

Answer 25

…factitious disorder.

Question 26

Young athletes have…

Answer 26

…osteogenic sarcoma.

Question 27

Kids (0-14) who are tired have…

Answer 27

…ALL (acute lymphoblastic leukemia).

Question 28

Young Adults (14-40) who are tired have…

Answer 28

…AML (acute myeloid leukemia).

Question 29

Adults (40-60) who are tired have…

Answer 29

…CML (chronic myelogenous leukemia).

Question 30

Elderly (60-?) who are tired have…

Answer 30

…CLL (B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia).

Question 31

Kids with Downs have…

Answer 31

…a VSD, Hirschsprung’s disease, ALL, and Alzheimer’s.

Question 32

Transplant patients get…

Answer 32

…cytomegalovirus in addition to their shiny new organ.

Question 33

Diabetics have…

Answer 33

…life-threatening mucormycosis, every freakin’ time.

Question 34

HIV patients have…

Answer 34

…toxoplasmosis if it’s a multiloculated brain cyst.

Question 35

Moms who lose their first baby have…

Answer 35

…type O blood.

Question 36

Women are always…

Answer 36

…pregnant. No matter how careful they were.

Question 37

Alcoholics have…

Answer 37

…hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), B12/Cobalamin deficiency, Klebs pneumonia, and Wernicke-Korsikoff syndrome from a B1/Thiamine deficiency.

Question 38

IV drug users have…

Answer 38

…right-sided endocarditis and multiple parietal strokes.

Question 39

Smokers have both…

Answer 39

…COPD and lung cancer.

Question 40

Cocaine addicts had…

Answer 40

…an MI.

Question 41

Travelers get…

Answer 41

…giardiasis, amoebiasis, yellow fever, dengue fever, and/or hepatitis.

Question 42

Kids swimming in lakes get…

Answer 42

…Naegleria Fowleri.

Question 43

Kids playing in the sandbox have…

Answer 43

…cutaneous or visceral larva migrans.

Question 44

People who look tan either have…

Answer 44

…skin cancer or hemochromatosis.

Question 45

Patients with a swollen knee are female, young, hot, and…

Answer 45

…caught gonorrhea from their last boyfriend.