diff --git a/backend/app/tasks/quiz_tasks.py b/backend/app/tasks/quiz_tasks.py
index afb6c80..4ea6888 100644
--- a/backend/app/tasks/quiz_tasks.py
+++ b/backend/app/tasks/quiz_tasks.py
@@ -395,16 +395,30 @@ FIGURE_AUDIT_PROMPT = """This figure is attached to the exam question below. Dec
 to it.
 
 It belongs if a candidate would need it, or could reasonably use it, to answer
-*this* question — a radiograph of the finding, a growth chart the question asks
-you to read, a table of the schedule being asked about. It does not belong if it
-is about some other topic entirely, which happens when a figure was lifted from
-the wrong page of a source document.
+*this* question. It does not belong if it is about some other topic entirely,
+which happens when a figure is lifted from the wrong page of a source document.
 
-Be strict about "no" and generous about "unsure": detaching a figure a question
-needs is worse than leaving a stray one attached for somebody to notice.
+**The rule that matters, learned by getting it wrong.** Two kinds of figure sit
+on these questions and they are not judged the same way.
+
+A *clinical* figure — a photograph, radiograph, ultrasound, ECG, fundoscopy,
+otoscopy, a microscopy slide, a specimen — is almost always the right one, and
+the connection is often indirect: a tick on a leaf against a July fever, fungal
+hyphae against a scaly rash, a recessed chin in the notes of a two-week-old.
+Answer "no" for one of these ONLY when it is anatomically or clinically
+impossible — a shoulder radiograph on a knee injury. Otherwise "yes", or
+"unsure" if you truly cannot tell. Detaching a clinical figure a question needs
+is the worst outcome here.
+
+A *non-clinical* figure — a table, a citation, a reference list, a bar chart, a
+nomogram, a page of text — belongs only when it is about the same subject as the
+question. These are where mis-extraction shows up, and where "no" is usually
+right.
 
 Answer ONLY with JSON:
-{"belongs": "yes" | "no" | "unsure", "shows": "one sentence describing the figure"}
+{"belongs": "yes" | "no" | "unsure",
+ "kind": "clinical" | "table" | "other",
+ "shows": "one sentence describing the figure"}
 
 QUESTION
 """
@@ -486,8 +500,17 @@ def audit_question_figures(self, job_id: str = "", limit: int | None = None,
                 continue
 
             belongs = str(verdict.get("belongs", "unsure")).strip().lower()
+            kind = str(verdict.get("kind", "")).strip().lower()
             shows = str(verdict.get("shows", "")).strip()[:600]
 
+            # The prompt says it and this enforces it: a clinical figure is
+            # never detached on the model's say-so alone. Sixteen good ones went
+            # in the first run — a tick on a leaf, fungal hyphae, an ECG on a
+            # tachypnoeic neonate — because a judgement about relevance was
+            # allowed to act on a photograph. It becomes a flag for a person.
+            if belongs == "no" and kind == "clinical":
+                belongs = "unsure"
+
             # The description is worth keeping whatever the verdict: "Figure
             # from question #1206" is a filename with extra steps.
             asset = db.query(MediaAsset).filter(MediaAsset.path == question.image_path).first()
@@ -501,7 +524,8 @@ def audit_question_figures(self, job_id: str = "", limit: int | None = None,
 
             if belongs == "no":
                 mismatches.append({"question_id": question.id, "path": question.image_path,
-                                   "shows": shows, "stem": stem[:160], "verdict": "no"})
+                                   "shows": shows, "stem": stem[:160], "kind": kind,
+                                   "verdict": "no"})
                 if detach:
                     question.image_path = None
                     db.query(QuestionMedia).filter(
@@ -518,7 +542,8 @@ def audit_question_figures(self, job_id: str = "", limit: int | None = None,
                 # Named, not just counted: "2 unsure" is a number nobody can
                 # act on. These stay attached and go on the list for a person.
                 mismatches.append({"question_id": question.id, "path": question.image_path,
-                                   "shows": shows, "stem": stem[:160], "verdict": "unsure"})
+                                   "shows": shows, "stem": stem[:160], "kind": kind,
+                                   "verdict": "unsure"})
             else:
                 kept += 1