Answer to the Medical Challenge

I apologize to anxious readers for the tardy answer. 


The answer to the "tender ear lesion" is #4 Candida.
Congrats to the brilliant diagnosticians who got it.  This was very hard because the ear is not a common site for a yeast infection and only 7% of the doctors taking the quiz online got it right.  The most common answer from physicians was squamous cell carcinoma.

A few give-aways:
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