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Talks about the use of psoriasis as a theme in non-medical literature. Psoriasis suffered by the main character in John Updike's `The Centaur'; Appeal of the visibility of psoriasis to the imagination; Updike's novella devoted to psoriasis in `From the Journal of a Leper'; One page devoted to the disease in Nabokov's `Ada.'

The article presents the authors' reactions to the Netherlands' BNN Broadcasting Company television show "Big Donor Show". The show, which never aired, and was later found to be a publicity stunt to raise attention to the need for organ donation, was about a terminally ill woman who was going to talk to three patients in need of a kidney and choose one of them to donate her kidney to. Arguments are presented which suggest that there is no law against bad taste and that if the selection for kidneys can be turned into a spectacle there may be an increasing industry of shows, games and lotteries to perform triage for scarce medical resources.